From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,128f9cb06cca4d85,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-29 07:48:24 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A7582BD.D51615EB@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Very Large Arrays (VLAs) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:48:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.178.185.185 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 980783304 63.178.185.185 (Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:48:24 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:48:24 PST Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4655 Date: 2001-01-29T15:48:24+00:00 List-Id: 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