Re: 'image and memory allocation

[aio!sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov!yow@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Bill Yow)]

In article <1992Apr23.164302.15348@puffin.uucp>, pete@puffin.uucp writes:

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|> Note that often simple DP progs have a single loop at the top level,
|> and SHOULD work on extensible data sets.  The trick you give is simply
|> that, a trick, and shouldn't be necessary (besides, NO manual documents

The Manual for version Meridian Ada 4.1 documents that problem.

Check page 9 of the Meridian Ada Compiler User's Guide under the section
Using the Compiler.

2.4.4 Catenation (&) and Storage Reclamation

... Has a paragraph about the problem and a sample program.


|> it.  Another real solution is to use 'image (and other string ops;
|> concatenation does this too) for debugging only).  Of course, this makes
|> your program unreadable, as in C where the string ops are all explicit
|> calls...
|> However, if the output is to be in neat columns, string ops are
|> undesireable anyhow as they give unpredictable sizes.
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|> 
|> >    Bruce Conroy
|> 
|> -- Pete

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