Re: segfault with large-ish array with GNAT

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

 expounded in news:hntlcq$u1t$1@speranza.aioe.org:

>> So here's me being naive: I would have thought that Ada (or GNAT
>> specifically) would be smart enough to allocate memory for large
>> objects such as my long array in a transparent way so that I don't
>> have to worry about it, thus (in the Ada spirit) making it harder to
>> screw up. (Like not having to worry about whether arguments to
>> subprograms are passed by value or by reference--it just happens.)
>>
>> But it seems that I will have to allocate memory for large objects
>> using pointers (and thus take the memory from the heap). Is that
>> right?
>   A couple of years ago I wrote some code to look at the (large) Netflix
> data set.  It used Janus Ada and ran in a 2 GB Windows system.  I thought
> about switching to Gnat (for faster floating point) but discovered that
> would require changing all large arrays to heap allocation, so I dropped
> that idea.  IMO, that's a ridiculous limitation in this day and age.

2gb is wayyy too small. ;-)

Warren