Re: Ada and pointers

[James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> Well, the statement is true enough because after all, dynamic allocation and
> the things done by pointers are really a kind of fiction. Memory is
> basically one big array that you index with integers, so obviously, a
> non-dynamic/non-pointer solution must exist. Anything you do with pointers
> could be implemented with a one dimensional array and integer indexes -
> because that's what the compiler translates it into.
> 

On many machines memory is one big array. This is not exactly true for
the old Intel machines that use a segmented memory model. In this case
memory is more like an array of arrays than a simple array.

Jim Rogers
Colorado Springs, Colorado USA