Re: Storage Pools and alloca

["Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>]

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wccvg43ift4.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> > By that I mean the declaration of "alloca" is often followed by
> >
> >     #pragma implicit( alloca )
>
> Sorry, I don't know what that pragma means.  Please explain.
> Is it standard C or C++?

GAHHH! Sorry, my mistake, I meant to say intrinsic, not implicit. I cannot
even blame this error on my spell checker, my only excuse for such a stupid
typo is that I ran out of coffee yesterday. Never again will I post anything
before I've had coffess.

> > The next time ACT-Europe revises the document "Common C/C++/Java
Pitfalls &
> > How Ada Avoids Them" document, they may wish to include something about
how
> > Ada can create a dynamically sized stack object with the hassles and
dangers
>                                                   ^^^^ ;-)
> > of "alloca" calls.
>
> Funny typo.  ;-)

Once again, this demonstrates that although Java the language is not
essential to my work, Java the beverage definitely is.