Thread: Java can do it, why not a IDE compilier give a warning,

Here is something strange, As programmers allocate memory space to their program, "they" including me, forget to release the memory, JAVA has no trouble releasing used memory that is no longer needed in the program,
So the big million dollar question is, Why not have the IDE compiler, give a warning if it can not find a free() or delete[] for every memory block of memory put aside in the program.




While I was getting back into writing and reading to text files, I would have to open a file, but after everything work OK, I commented out the "close file" line,, I never ran the program, but it did compile and link alright.
But maybe if I pay good money on a compiler, maybe it will do all the things I have highlighted above.

Originally Posted by Salem

C++ can do everything Java can do, if you learn to use it properly.

I do not doubt that Salem

I have used a program called "HTML tidy" to alert me if my website pages written with a simple text editor had mistakes in it, one page I did was ok with Internet explorer, but was a complete mess with Opera, that was because Internet Explorer was bloated with code to fix up poorly written HTML, like it might start with a table row <tr> but no end of table row </tr> that was why it was a mess with opera back in the late 1990's. The HTML tidy would pick up if there was no closing tags, along with lots of other errors.

So I thought why not get a C, C++ IDE compiler not to "tidy up" any C / C++ code, but warn a allocated block of memory was used in the program but it was not release, just like JAVA does automatically, along with making sure a opened file was closed, but you would have to be a student learner "lost in space" to miss out the "close file". But not to release the memory is more of a "contagious error" a lot of programmers make.