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From: "fabio de francesco" <fmdf@tiscali.it>
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Subject: "new" word
Date: 16 Mar 2005 01:56:20 -0800
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Ciao,

While reading "the big online book of Linux Ada programming", by Ken O.
Burtch, I stopped at the following assertion
(http://www.pegasoft.ca/resources/boblap/13.html):

"Usually you allocate memory with the Ada new statement. Where does new
get its memory? It uses the standard C library's malloc function."

Does really Ada use Libc to implement "new"? Is it true?

It seems absurd to me. I don't understand why Ada should depend on a C
standard library. 

Regards,

fabio de francesco