Re: Storage_Size in a Simple Program

[Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 2:07:55 AM UTC-7, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
> Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
> 
> > I've got a conceptually simple program that uses a lot of memory. It is
> > highly recursive (using a lot of stack) and also puts a lot of stuff on
> > the heap. Is there any way to specify that a lot of memory is needed
> > other than pragma Storage_Size?
> > 
> > As it is, I have three totally artificial tasks hidden in packages. The
> > packages' entry routines are simply pass-throughs to their embedded
> > task's entries. There are no concurrency issues because the simple
> > program is single-threaded at heart.
> > 
> > Is that it? That's a lot of baggage just to give permission to use more
> > memory, particularly when there's a lot of memory lying around now.
> 
> All the responses about limit/ulimit are certainly solutions, but
> they're not quite what I was asking about. I was looking for a solution
> written in Ada. I've been around Ada long enough to remember that a goal
> was to be able to completely express programs in Ada itself without
> having to worry about outside influences. (I write this knowing that the
> semantics of pragma Storage_Size are not at all tight.)
> 
> To my knowledge, the current specification of Ada comes closer to that
> goal than any other language.
 
How about use task wrapper and pragma Storage_Size (...) combo.

Anh Vo