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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.129.120.87 with SMTP id t84mr19523605ywc.160.1502827673973; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:07:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.250.70 with SMTP id v67mr142499ith.2.1502827673941; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:07:53 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.etla.org!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!s6no2185167qtc.1!news-out.google.com!19ni1017itw.0!nntp.google.com!m34no598344iti.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:07:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <920fe12d-1fae-4864-9409-adf28231164c@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=204.52.135.186; posting-account=7Oy7OQoAAABhVYFOo553Cn1-AaU-bSfl NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.52.135.186 References: <920fe12d-1fae-4864-9409-adf28231164c@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Need a way to convert a constant to a variable From: Eryndlia Mavourneen Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:07:53 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47729 Date: 2017-08-15T13:07:53-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 3:05:52 PM UTC-5, Eryndlia Mavourneen wrote: > On Saturday, August 5, 2017 at 8:41:26 AM UTC-5, Victor Porton wrote: > > ... > > Sometimes one needs to convert a constant view into variable view (I am > > fully conscious that after this the programmer should take care not to > > change the object of the view). > > ... > > Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org >=20 > Aside from any language-specific issues, I would expect Ada to allocate a= constant in a Read-Only program section for the linkage editor. If it do= es this and nothing else is done in the linker, then any attempt to write a= constant would fail with a hardware exception. >=20 > -- Eryndlia (KK1T) Note that I use Windows 10 and I enable DEP (Data Execution Prevention).