From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8055158949c56618 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-15 10:26:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Storage Pools and alloca X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:26:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.157.178.79 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1034702766 141.157.178.79 (Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:26:06 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:26:06 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29809 Date: 2002-10-15T17:26:06+00:00 List-Id: I should have been a little clearer. Ada has always allowed a programmer to locally declare an object whose size can only be determined at runtime, and this facility can be used in many places where C programmers would use "alloca". The way I should have worded this question is that given Ada's ability to declare dynamically sized objects, is there ever a need for an "alloca" storage pool? My educated guess would be no, but I thought it might be worthwhile to run this idea past the Ada community.