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  3. February 2008

Re: dealloc vs dealloc(n)

Mark,

You've obviously never written a recursive procedure which allocates memory
and then runs amok :-) It's not pretty.

Rory

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Mark S. Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello, all:

Personally, I never, ever deallocate dynamically allocated storage.
Since the ILE heap is so large, we can usually afford to just keep on
issuing alloc for more and more storage. Eventually, at "end of job",
the whole ILE heap gets cleaned up automatically. So, this way, you
never have these problems with "dangling" pointers overlaying other
storage. (Also, those kinds of problems are usually very difficult to
debug.)

This approach also applies to all languages that can use dynamically
allocated ILE heap storage (even OPM MI assembler).

Cheers,

Mark S. Waterbury

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