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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Large strings in ADA
Date: 2000/04/17
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In article <38FB4521.D02EA4C9@xpress.se>,
  Johan Groth <jgroth@xpress.se> wrote:
> tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> >
> > >Perhaps you should try duplicating the -exact- C semantics.
Presumably
> > >you have a -very- large char buffer into which the items
are copied.
> >
> >   If the original is in C, it must have something like
> >      char Msg[2500000];  // 2.5 MB
> > so the straightforward Ada equivalent would be
> >      Msg : String(1 .. 2_500_000);  -- 2.5 MB
>
> The above is the current solution but it doesn't work as it
uses to much
> memory.


That's odd, what machine are you on? Almost all operating
systems use commit-on-use allocation these days.


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