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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: memory leakages with Ada?
Date: 18 Mar 2002 14:34:41 -0600
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In article <3C9645DD.4020006@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

>> The caller has equal convenience :
>> declare
>>    UC : String := Uppercase("Take that!");
>> begin
>>    ...

> to out parameters or to record members. And it will most
> likely require an extra copy of the return value, since
> it's difficult to construct a variable-size array in the
> callers's frame.

Construction of the variable-size array in the frame of the
caller is what is done by the portion of Warren's post shown
above.