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From: Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Bounded String question
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:34:53 -0500
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:

> On 11/10/2015 05:48 PM, Bob Duff wrote:
>> 
>> I suggest rolling your own.  No need for generics.
>> 
>>    type Bounded_String (Max_Length : Natural := ...) is limited record
>>       Length : Natural := 0;
>>       Chars  : String (1 .. Max_Length);
>>    end record;
>
> Except that using Natural for Max_Length results in GNAT allocating Integer'Last
> characters for Chars, which is unlikely to fit on the stack.

No, the type is limited, so GNAT will allocate space for Max_Length
characters, not Natural'Last characters.

- Bob