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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b1208117d36fb121 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-22 07:00:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uio.no!193.216.69.35.MISMATCH!dax.net!juliett.dax.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: System.Address'Size - not a static integer expression? References: <665e587a.0203060957.3682edf7@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0204121220.606ecc36@posting.google.com> <3CB74D37.973A4C19@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204141201.1ffab2d8@posting.google.com> <3CBAEE01.D17C2DB0@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204161911.687f3144@posting.google.com> <3CBDBE76.F4FF3905@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204190606.4855f886@posting.google.com> <3CC03241.883A6E33@despammed.com> <5ee5b646.0204192111.1914353d@posting.google.com> <7vlmbgks2a.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <5ee5b646.0204220524.391c5b67@posting.google.com> From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Message-ID: <7vd6wrltpz.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:59:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.216.12.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tele2.no X-Trace: juliett.dax.net 1019483976 193.216.12.150 (Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:59:36 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:59:36 MET DST Organization: Tele2 Norway AS Public Access Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22911 Date: 2002-04-22T13:59:36+00:00 List-Id: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes: > Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote in message news:<7vlmbgks2a.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no>... > > dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes: > > > > > Wes Groleau wrote in message news:<3CC03241.883A6E33@despammed.com>... > > > > > > > Not really. I just assumed the common meaning of static > > > > (non-chnging) used in most computer science classes--even > > > > those that teach C which has a REALLY wierd special meaning. > > > > > > Actually the meaning in C is quite simple, it refers to the allocation > > > mode, so a static variable in C is statically allocated as opposied to > > > dynamically allocated -- very standard terms of usage. I certainly find > > > the use of static in C more intuitive from a terminology point of view > > > than "OWN" in Algol-60. > > > > Close, but no cigar :-) > > I suggest you look up the keyword 'static' in the C standard. > > Of course I know what static means in C, I am explaining the underlying > intuition of why the word static comes to be used rather than alligator :-) But that is precisely my point. For one of the meanings of 'static' in C, it could just as well have been 'alligator'. I do not see the connection between 'static' and 'not extern'. I believe the original poster also was thinking of these two different, and in my opinion, uncorrelated meanings.