Re: Array and memory usage

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Note that it is *probably* generating code that will initialize the objects
as they are created. It is probably also not the most efficient way that the
initialization could be done, either. I've seen major problems with embedded
code where we've wanted to initialize global RAM data and couldn't get
static initialization of it using the usual Ada mechanisms. I've also seen
where initialization of the type would generate code to initialize each
field of the record with function calls but initialization of the object
with an aggregate would result in a simple memory move of the whole thing.

If you care about code size and efficiency, you can find a number of
"surprises" and "gotchas" with Ada.

MDC
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Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> Ok but I also have a :
>
>    User_Db : User_Data;
>
> And if I use the first User_Data type then the memory usage only increases
as
> I add Names and Hostnames. I mean it doesn't go from 800 to 2356 as I
> add one name, but slowly until all Names are added. This puzzeles me.