From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ccb8bd6b4c3162fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Beginner's questions Date: 1999/05/04 Message-ID: <7gn3ho$c0e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 473926003 References: <7gkq7e$dcm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x17.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue May 04 15:25:49 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) wrote: > dennison@telepath.com wrote: > > : If you won't need to change the contents of the strings, one quick-and-dirty > : method is the following: > > : type String_Ptr is access String; > ^^^ "constant" > > If you use "type String_Ptr is access constant String" to > declare your pointer type, then the language prevents > erroneous overwriting of the strings, and the compiler > (if it follows the Ada 95 implementation advice) will > allocate and initialize the pointed-to strings at link-time, rather than > run-time, exactly like "C" string literals. Ohhhhh, nifty! That was effectively an Ada 83 code chunk I posted. I'll have to remember to use "access constant" next time it comes up. Does your last sentence only apply for package specs and bodies, not for subprograms? When I use this trick, its typically in my "main" subprogram. -- T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own