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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug in GNAT? - Max_size_in_storage_elements insufficient
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 02:39:17 +0100
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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

>> Well, then it's at least a bug in [Barnes] because there's an example
>> like the above ones just with a simpler type. But I still think the idea
>> here is/was to provide enough space for N items of some type.
> 
> I am not sure if that were technically possible. Considering an 
> implementation of, for example, a marked-margins pool, the penalty to 
> have a guarantee would be extremely high.

Surely that's what a static language can supply, the actual amount of space
required?