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| -- -- |
| -- GNAT COMPILER COMPONENTS -- |
| -- -- |
| -- G N A T . S T R I N G S -- |
| -- -- |
| -- S p e c -- |
| -- -- |
| -- Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- |
| -- -- |
| -- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under -- |
| -- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft- -- |
| -- ware Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later ver- -- |
| -- sion. GNAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITH- -- |
| -- OUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY -- |
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| -- MA 02111-1307, USA. -- |
| -- -- |
| -- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from this -- |
| -- unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable, -- |
| -- this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be -- |
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| -- however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be -- |
| -- covered by the GNU Public License. -- |
| -- -- |
| -- GNAT was originally developed by the GNAT team at New York University. -- |
| -- Extensive contributions were provided by Ada Core Technologies Inc. -- |
| -- -- |
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| |
| -- Common String access types and related subprograms |
| |
| with Unchecked_Deallocation; |
| |
| package GNAT.Strings is |
| |
| type String_Access is access all String; |
| -- General purpose string access type. Note that the caller is |
| -- responsible for freeing allocated strings to avoid memory leaks. |
| |
| procedure Free is new Unchecked_Deallocation |
| (Object => String, Name => String_Access); |
| -- This procedure is provided for freeing allocated values of type |
| -- String_Access. |
| |
| type String_List is array (Positive range <>) of String_Access; |
| type String_List_Access is access all String_List; |
| -- General purpose array and pointer for list of string accesses |
| |
| procedure Free (Arg : in out String_List_Access); |
| -- Frees the given array and all strings that its elements reference, |
| -- and then sets the argument to null. Provided for freeing allocated |
| -- values of this type. |
| |
| end GNAT.Strings; |
