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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Reading environment variables in ADA?
Date: 1998/10/06
Date: 1998-10-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6vdgvv$2h3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m34stiyb9n.fsf@mheaney.ni.net

In article <m34stiyb9n.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>,
  Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
> gisle@krake.ii.uib.no (Gisle S{lensminde) writes:
>
> >    Var_Name := Cstr.New_String("HOME");
>
> Please do not this, as this solution uses heap unnecessarily.  You only
> need to declare an aliased string object on the stack.


Note that if you declare a *constant* aliased string, then a good compiler
should not even allocate stack space, but instead allocate the constant
statically. This is what GNAT does, and I believe that at least some other
Ada compilers do this same optimization.

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  reply	other threads:[~1998-10-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-12  0:00 Reading environment variables in ADA? Stefan Lingdell
1998-09-12  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr
1998-09-13  0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1998-09-17  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-17  0:00 ` Gisle S{lensminde
1998-10-06  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-06  0:00     ` dewarr [this message]
1998-10-06  0:00       ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-07  0:00         ` dewarr
1998-10-07  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-13  0:00             ` Simon Wright
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