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From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Constants: how are they allocated?
Date: 1996/05/06
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justin gombos wrote:
> 
> Oops.. I botched on the question.  Let me re-word it.  If a constant is
> defined and allocated at runtime, where is it stored?  ie. in the case
> that a constant is assigned to a function or expression containing
> variables.

The answer is still the same. This is not something defined in the 
language's specification, so it is up to the compiler writer. Your
compiler's documentation may contain this information. No one here
can give you a definitive answer without knowing what Ada compiler
(vendor and platform) you are talking about.

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