Re: Q: Memory management

[jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)]

In article <uvvg27kjm35.fsf@chaq.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Hannes Haug <Hannes.Haug@Student.Uni-Tuebingen.de> writes:

> >>>>> "Wes" == "W Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM> writes:
> 
>     Wes> Hannes suggests
>     >> Pass_To_Assembler ( X ( X.all'First )'Address );
> 
>     Wes> X.all'First and X'First should be identical.
> 
>     Wes> X'Address and X(X'First)'Address should be identical, too,
>     Wes> unless ...
> 
> Is this true if you deal with unconstrained arrays ?

Implementation defined, but probably not.

> The bounds have
> to be stored at the beginning of the array. I think that X'Address
> would give you the address of the location where the bounds are stored.

Or maybe a dope vector or ...

/Jon
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