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From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)
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Subject: Re: A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer)
Date: 19 Jun 2004 04:17:53 -0700
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Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> wrote in message news:<8EMAc.5698$w07.1296@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> Wojtek Narczynski wrote:
> 
> > Please allow a small quiz: how much memory does an Unbounded_String
> > instance take, for a string "a" (of lenght 1 char)?
> 
> There are many responses to this. One is: it depends on the compiler. No 
> implementation is specified for Unbounded_String.
> 
> (...)
>

Under the only compiler I can check - GNAT, 32 bit machine: 60 bytes,
measured empirically.

Maybe life is more comfortable without knowing certain facts, but I
happened to already know this, and I can't help it by now.


Regards,
Wojtek