Re: Memory management clarification

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
Trying to learn a bit of Ada I came across a statement that memory allocated from the pool will be implicitly reclaimed when the acces variable used to reference it goes out of scope.

this is called garbage collection. can you tell us where you read this statement ?

if i remember right, garbage collection is _allowed_ by the standard, but not _defined_ in the same standard.

the only 2 compilers i can think of implementing a GC are JGNAT and MGNAT, 2 niche compilers targeting the JVM and CLI, mainly because the GC is a feature of their target platform. i'm not aware of any other implementation of a garbage collector, but i may be wrong...

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