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-Thread: 103376,ac426c319fea6535
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:23:30 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Organization: future apps GmbH
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Please clear my doubt about variant record type
References: <1147686792.273900.278760@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
In-Reply-To: <1147686792.273900.278760@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <44687297$0$11075$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 May 2006 14:22:47 MEST
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2105a16b.newsread4.arcor-online.net
X-Trace: 
 DXC=Nk>mL`m3WRk_Pi]:Sm<]\d:ejgIfPPlddjW\KbG]kaMh]kI_X=5KeafYH[4<gb2jQlUUng9_FXZ=c>:=P9Ihe`Bh@Z?dZ]MOide
X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4264
Date: 2006-05-15T14:22:47+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Sathish Veluswamy wrote:
> Hi..
> 
> Can you please tell me at what time does the memory is allocated for an
> variant record type. whether the memory is allocated at the time of
> compilation or during run-time..??

Depends.

type T(toggle: BOOLEAN) is record
   ...
end record;

Then

function foo(m: BOOLEAN) return INTEGER is
   x: T(m);
begin
   ...
end;

The compiler will not know, in general, which variant
of T to choose for x, at compile time?