Re: C Strings in Ada?

[emery@linus.mitre.org (David Emery)]

Allan Doyle writes
>If I take the worst case assumption that c_string
>is being allocated from the heap and add it to the worst case assumption
>that my Ada run-time will not be doing garbage collection (perfectly legal,
>I understand), then how many of these little beasties can I convert from
>Ada to C before I run out of memory?

It's not clear to me that you can guarantee with a C compiler that
there is not some compiler-generated heap, either.  Does the C
LANGUAGE guarantee non-heap allocation for a local variable???    Or
does "everyone knows that's how it's done?"

 				dave emery
				emery@aries.mitre.org