Controlling dynamic objects in large Ada systems

  • Authors:
  • Steven M. Rosen

  • Affiliations:
  • Siemens Research and Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

This paper describes a generalized technique for controlling the growth of dynamically allocated objects within an Ada system due to the careless, yet innocent misuse of access types, allocators and instantiations of the generic procedure UNCHECKED_DEALLOCATION. The technique outlined here involves reliance on Ada's strong typing model and in particular, the judicious use of limited private data types in conjunction with generic packages and data abstraction facilities.