Re: Dynamic Address Clauses??

[rfg@nsc.nsc.com (Ron Guilmette)]

In article <8806011944.AA06549@ti.com> LINNIG@eg.csc.ti.COM (Mike Linnig) writes:

>The following package was compiled with two compilers (DEC Ada and
>Tartan 1750a Ada).  Both allowed the declaration of X.  DEC ada
>complained about the type conversion used for the rep clause
>in ANOTHER.
>Assuming one or both is legal, what do they mean???
>

>  X: INTEGER;
>  for X use at DYNAMIC;  -- just what does this mean??

I have at least a fuzzy (but not warm) feeling as to the meaning of the code
shown above, however a very similar construction has disturbed me deeply,
to wit:

	procedure P;
	for P use at DYNAMIC;

For a true embedded system, I can understand that one may want to fix certain
routines at certain places via:

	procedure P;
	for P use at STATIC;

However I cannot envision any case in which dynamic relocation of routines
WHILE THE PROGRAM IS RUNNING would be of any benefit.  I can however
predict that such a capability might be an implementor's nightmare.
Note that 13.5(5) seem to allow (and now perhaps require?) such a
capability in all implementations!  Wow!
-- 
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