Re: Ada.Containers and Storage_Pools

[Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 Marcin Simonides posted:

"[..]

The problem I'm facing (and that is certain to show up in other parts
of our project) is that I need to limit the size of cache in memory. To
do this I would need to be able to have the containers allocate their
nodes from a user-specified storage pool with some limiting mechanism
(I already have such a pool and use it for objects that are allocated
by my code).

So I have a question: is there a possibility, either in GNAT 3.4.5 or
in Ada 2005, to specify a custom storage pool for use by containers? If
not, is there any other solution to limiting the size of memory used by
containers?

[..]"

Perhaps I have failed to notice something obvious and important but could 
you use Storage_Size? From 13.11(15) in the Ada 2005 draft standard,
http://www.adaic.org/standards/05rm/html/RM-13-11.html#I4699
: "Storage_Size [..] may be specified for a non-derived 
access-to-object type via an attribute_definition_clause; [..]".

Regards,
Colin Paul Gloster