joakimds

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   by joakimds 5y ago

   Many safety critical systems in Ada ban the usage of dynamic allocation and Unchecked_Deallocation by adding "pragma Restrictions (No_Heap);" and "pragma Restrictions (No_Dependence => Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation);" at
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   by joakimds 5y ago

   Thanks for clarifying how the dangling pointers may arise. Not everyone agrees with me, but these are my thoughts/recommendations when using Ada. Which thread/task that has ownership of a variable is paramount. Whenever one define
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   by joakimds 5y ago

   I'm confused not more complex large-scale software projects are written in Ada. The way I understand it, they are not complicated enough you need Ada. For example, Ada makes it easy to structure one's code in a strict tree hierarc
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   by joakimds 5y ago

   Hi Geofft! Ada developer here. When I read and study the Ada reference manual for the 1995 standard I get the impression that the Ada language designers were not thinking of third-party garbage collection or reference counting as the primar