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From: Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net>
Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/06/09
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Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> wrote:
> I am trying to understand the mechanism behind T'Class. I have been told
> that the size of such variables is determined at run-time, and also that
> the heap is not required for such variables.

This specific question has been beat to death, but I wanted to point out
a generality.

When folks say that an Ada feature doesn't use the heap, they usually
mean that it doesn't require the programmer to explicitly use the heap.
The run-time has to create and delete scratch areas from time to time,
and it's not defined where these are.

Best,
Sam Mize

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