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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Safety of the Booch Ada 95 Components
Date: 1999/12/12
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In article <1e2ns7h.cx85ir1azwo9iN%herwin@gmu.edu>,
  herwin@gmu.edu (Harry Erwin) wrote:
> A deep copy of a pointer data structure may require more
> memory than is available.


A naive copy may have that characteristic, but it is always
possible on modern machines to do such a copy with no additional
storage. It just takes a bit of cleverness. Remember that every
pointer has at least two spare bits.


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