Memory management in Ada83 and Ada9X

  • Authors:
  • Stef Van Vlierberghe

  • Affiliations:
  • Offis N.V./S.A., Atlas Park, Weiveldlaan 41/32, B-1930 Zaventem

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
  • Year:
  • 1994

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

There has been a significant evolution in the design of Ada9X with respect to meeting memory management requirements. This paper will introduce the memory management problem, and possible approaches in Ada83 and Ada9X. Today the Committee Draft includes full support for user-defined assignment and finalization, and this paper will illustrate how the new language features can be used to provide solutions that are both elegant and robust.An example of a primitive list component is used to illustrate the problem, and to illustrate the evolution from Ada83 to Ada9X.