Re: Q: memory management

[kdm@rational.com (Kent Mitchell)]

Jon S Anthony (jsa@organon.com) wrote:
: In article <uvv4tod9j9e.fsf@chaq.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Hannes Haug <Hannes.Haug@Student.Uni-Tuebingen.de> writes:


: > I think "new Storage_Array (n)" will give me a little bit too
: > much storage. The array bounds need some space.

: I don't know what "storage_array" is, but don't worry about the
: space for bounds.  It's all taken care of for you.

Actually a more interesting question to consider is why you would want to
allocate a generic pool of space within Ada.  C has this because C *only*
has generic pointers.  Ada has a more controlled concept of allocation with
pointers to specific types which are not generally interchangable.  This
allows the language to manage pools of different objects and still provide
reasonable type safety, etc.  Generally, if you need to allocate a buffer, it
is a buffer of some specific things (characters, bytes, records, etc.).
So ... you might want to look at doing things in a more Ada-like way instead
of a C-like general buffer.

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