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Subject: Re: C Strings in Ada?
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Re: C Strings in Ada
Please listen to Mike Murphy.  He knows of what he speaks!

In particular, many compilers do *not* use the heap for
objects of dynamic size.  Instead, they use a mark/release discipline
on a stack, either the primary stack or a secondary stack.

Secondly, despite David Emory's appropriate warning, *most* Ada
compilers will treat access-to-*constrained*-string as a simple
address pointing directly at the characters.  You will still
have to worry about the null terminator, since Ada is presuming
the pointed-to string is quite long.

S. Tucker Taft
Intermetrics, Inc.
Cambridge, MA  02138