Re: very long string and Segmentation fault

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

zychp@o2.pl wrote:

> I have problem with creating very long strings. When I try to create
> string bigger than 5MB I get  Segmentation fault.

Well, you should not ;-)  - its certainly a compiler bug.

> Tmp: String_Access;
> ...
> Tmp := new String (1 .. 10_000_000);
> 
> In this line a get  Segmentation fault. I use GNAT 3.4.5.

Provided by whom?

> What is more when I run this code:
> 
>    type ttt is array (positive range <> ) of Character;
>    type ttt_a is access ttt;
>    Tmp : ttt_a ;
> begin
>    Tmp := new ttt ( 1 .. 10_000_000 ) ;
>    for i in Tmp'range loop
>       Tmp(i) := 'x';
>    end loop;
> 
> It works fine. But now it's hard to use some Ada.Strings.Fixed
> functions.
> 
> What can be the reason of this? How it can be soved?

As I said: Certainly a compiler bug so the solution can only be an upgrade.
You might want to have a look at:

http://gnuada.sf.net.

Mind you: There *might* be a new release for SuSE within the week.

Martin
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