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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Largest size array in Gnat 2005 for the PC?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:27:46 +0100
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* Martin Krischik:

> No, the array index used affect the maximum size. I suggest you read:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/array
>
> and consider what would happen if "Index_Range" is of type
> Long_Long_Integer and if you computer has enough memory to hold such a
> beast.

The problem in past GNAT versions was that 'Size was not actually a
univeral integer, but a 32-bit type.  Since it's measured in bits, it
limits object size to 256 MB on all architectures.

Has this been fixed?