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From: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: GNAT and Memory Maps?
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Freejack <Freejack@nomail.com> writes:

> I've been picking through the GNAT docs (and Ada docs in general) in an
> attempt to figure out how/if and when/why the Ada compiler might choose to
> use an mmap system call in deference to a malloc/calloc or alloca call.

At least the publicly available GNAT versions completely rely on the
system's C run-time library for memory management.  They do not go
below the malloc()/free() level.