Re: Storage_Size in a Simple Program

[csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson)]

Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

> I've got a conceptually simple program that uses a lot of memory. It is
> highly recursive (using a lot of stack) and also puts a lot of stuff on
> the heap. Is there any way to specify that a lot of memory is needed
> other than pragma Storage_Size?
> 
> As it is, I have three totally artificial tasks hidden in packages. The
> packages' entry routines are simply pass-throughs to their embedded
> task's entries. There are no concurrency issues because the simple
> program is single-threaded at heart.
> 
> Is that it? That's a lot of baggage just to give permission to use more
> memory, particularly when there's a lot of memory lying around now.

All the responses about limit/ulimit are certainly solutions, but
they're not quite what I was asking about. I was looking for a solution
written in Ada. I've been around Ada long enough to remember that a goal
was to be able to completely express programs in Ada itself without
having to worry about outside influences. (I write this knowing that the
semantics of pragma Storage_Size are not at all tight.)

To my knowledge, the current specification of Ada comes closer to that
goal than any other language.

Charlie
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