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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: storage error: stack overflow
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:11:08 +0200
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On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:02:40 -0300, hreba wrote:

> On 08/18/2015 09:37 AM, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>> hreba <f_hreba@yahoo.com.br> writes:
>>
>>> I need an access type because in my real program TB is a tagged type
>>> and I need class-wide variables.
>>
>> This is generally not a reason to use access types in Ada.

> Huh? As much as I know you cannot declare variables of a type with 
> unknown storage requirements at compile time, such as class-wide types 
> and arrays with unknown range.

Of course you can, e.g.

declare
   Line : String := Get_Line;
begin
   ...

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