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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Q: Memory management
Date: 1996/06/26
Date: 1996-06-26T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.835838995@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.96Jun25133402@organon.com


Jon replies to Hannes saying

"> The bounds have
> to be stored at the beginning of the array. I think that X'Address
> would give you the address of the location where the bounds are stored.

Or maybe a dope vector or ..."

In GNAT, you will always get the address of the first element of the
array. This behavior is required for the type Interfaces.C.char_array,
and it seems reasonable to extend it to all unconstrained array types.





  reply	other threads:[~1996-06-26  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-06-24  0:00 Q: Memory management W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-06-25  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-26  0:00   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-06-25  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-25  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-06-25  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
     [not found]     ` <Dtzv4J.9FL@thomsoft.com>
1996-07-17  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-27  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
     [not found] <JSA.96Jun26142033@organon.com>
1996-06-27  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-27  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-06-27  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-06-19  0:00 Q: memory management W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-06-20  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-20  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-20  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-21  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-21  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-25  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-15  0:00 Hannes Haug
1996-06-15  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-15  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-16  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-18  0:00   ` Kent Mitchell
1996-06-16  0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-17  0:00   ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-17  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-18  0:00   ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-18  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-19  0:00     ` Hannes Haug
1996-06-18  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony

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