From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Mission-Critical Design: Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation vs Garbage Collection Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:51:29 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="23dab0694e4174fdc880833ec67fa650"; logging-data="17115"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18UuUSTreLGOrrYyUuIN8BG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:0SmfzLFO+Cqg3EkuBZgVqsm7DRw= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21040 Date: 2014-07-18T09:51:29+02:00 List-Id: Le 18/07/2014 08:25, Jeffrey Carter a écrit : > On 07/17/2014 11:17 PM, NiGHTS wrote: >> What are your thoughts on this? When is it better to use garbage >> collection and when is it better to use classic new & delete memory >> management when a life may be on the line? > > Typically, safety-critical systems don't allow dynamic allocation > and deallocation. > ... especially in Ada, where MUCH can be accomplished without resorting to pointers, unlike many other languages. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr