Fortran - Re: Bounds Check Overhead

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Re: Bounds Check Overhead

glen herrmannsfeldt

2006-05-31, 4:05 am

James Giles wrote:
> Richard E Maine wrote:

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> True. Given the first, the second is reasonable. The first
> is not particularly reasonable. Having a function return
> a pointer is a good way to have memory leaks. And that's
> aside from the fact that I don't think the language should
> have pointers at all.

There are plenty of cases where functions returning pointers don't
cause memory leaks, though in some cases they do. Hash tables and
linked lists are popular uses of pointers.

Especially if you can make a generic pointer like (void*) in C or Object
in Java. If you can, then you can make a generic hash table or generic
linked list routine.

-- glen

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