Re: Howto debug seg-faulting Ada 95 code?

["Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com>]

"Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote in message
news:RNRc9.336566$UU1.57839@sccrnsc03...
>
> > "Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote in message
> > news:FhMc9.91102$kp.733909@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net...
> > <snip>
> > > Either use new or declare the variable at the library level (in
a
> > package)
> > > to make it go on the heap.
> >
> > What has a declaration at the library level have to do with the
heap?
> >
> >
>
> Techically nothing..I don't believe I have ever read anything in the
LRM
> that
> says for sure that if you declare a variable in a package it goes on
the
> heap but
> if you declare it in a procedure (including the mainline) it goes on
the
> stack. (See, now
> why did Robert have to go and leave...Where is Tucker Taft when you
need
> him)
>
> Having said that, every compiler I have used does something like
this.  It
> also tends to
> make intuitive sense.

Humm, every compiler I have used did not.  Declarations within library
units are just the first things pushed. We don't think of that initial
stack push as being a stack operation because it is never "popped"
until the program completes.