Very Large Arrays (VLAs)

["Marc A. Criley" <mcquadex@earthlink.net>]

While it's certainly possible to declare very large constrained arrays,
where "very large" means an Index_Type'Range equaling or exceeding
Positive'Range, has anyone ever actually declared and used such an array
in production code?

(I'm not talking using such a type as in index for an _unconstrained_
array that is subsequently constrained to a smaller range, such as the
way the String type is managed.)

Array objects of such a type would obviously require a great deal of
storage, and when I've accidentally allocated such arrays in the past, a
Storage_Error was usually raised.

I'm not asking how one would go about managing such a VLA--just if any
production system has actually used such an array.

Thanks,

Marc A. Criley
Senior Staff Engineer
Quadrus Corporation
www.quadruscorp.com