Re: "new" word

[Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>]

fabio de francesco wrote:
> "Usually you allocate memory with the Ada new statement. Where does new
> get its memory? It uses the standard C library's malloc function."
> 
> Does really Ada use Libc to implement "new"? Is it true?

Is the book writing about Ada, or about GNAT?  It is not completely
true about "Ada" -- each compiler vendor has their own method.
HOWEVER, if the compilar and run-time runs on an operating system,
memory allocation _has_ to eventually get back to that operating
system's allocation mechanism, no matter how many levels of indirection
are in between.

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Wes Groleau
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