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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Reading environment variables in ADA?
Date: 1998/10/06
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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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