From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Help with designing data structure for novice Ada programmer
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:05:33 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:01:22 -0500, "1.AAC0832" <z24ba7.net> declaimed the
following:
> You DO have to bring in a special proc to FREE memory allocated
> on the heap however. Kinda weird - you'd think making and freeing
> would naturally be implemented together. This "free()" is very
> type-specific, multiple incarnation of the proc will be needed
> if you have multiple kinds of records to free.
>
Take into account the origins for Ada. Many embedded/real-time
applications follow the practice of pre-allocating all memory during
application initialization before transitioning into "running" mode. They
never deallocate memory. If something goes wrong, the entire application
system is rebooted, resetting all memory.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/
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2022-01-08 20:41 Help with designing data structure for novice Ada programmer Aleksy Grabowski
2022-01-09 2:36 ` Paul Rubin
2022-01-09 9:49 ` Aleksy Grabowski
2022-01-09 10:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-01-14 5:01 ` 1.AAC0832
2022-01-14 16:05 ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2022-01-14 17:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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