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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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From: Markus E Leypold
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Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:34 +0100, Markus E Leypold wrote:
>> "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Feb 26, 3:44 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Further, why do you presume that heap is larger than stack?
>> >> AFAIK, nothing in RM requires or implies that.
>> >
>> > Past experience. If that's not the case for some implementation then
>> > fine, but I suspect it's more often the case then not. I'm pretty sure
>> > we've seen newbie examples on the newsgroup where they create
>> > unconstrained objects (is that the right term?) on the stack and then
>> > wonder why their program doesn't work.
>> 
>> I'm also pretty sure that in most of those cases creating them on the
>> heap wouldn't work either.

> Really, isn't this an issue of how to best use GNAT
> for Ada programs when they have potentially large objects.

Yes, that's because I said "in most of those cases". _Those_ cases.

Regards -- Markus