From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!x6YkKUCkj2qHLwbKnVEeag.user.46.165.242.91.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Custom Storage Pool questions Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:00:01 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <1d2551f4-8189-44ec-a54d-4a56a672bedcn@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="14836"; posting-host="x6YkKUCkj2qHLwbKnVEeag.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62851 List-Id: On 2021-09-28 06:38, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message > news:sibu1t$12ds$1@gioia.aioe.org... >> This is also true, but again unrelated to the point that tying >> finalization *without* deallocation to a pointer type is just wrong, >> semantically on any abstraction level. > > If you didn't finalize everything, then a system like Claw would not work, > since there would be objects that would have gotten destroyed (when the > access type goes out of scope) and would still be on the various active > object chains. (The whole reason that these things are controlled is so that > they can be added to and removed from object chains as needed.) I did not say that the pointer type going out of scope should free objects allocated though it. I said that it should not finalize anything. It must simply silently die not touching anything. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de