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,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-15 09:02:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B7A9D94.F34F65E@worldnet.att.net> From: James Rogers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and pointers References: <1ope7.5943$6R6.582900@news1.cableinet.net> <9ldto7$9pg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:02:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.33.122 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 997891329 12.86.33.122 (Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:02:09 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:02:09 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11952 Date: 2001-08-15T16:02:09+00:00 List-Id: 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