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From: Fionn Mac Cumhaill <invisible@hiding.from.spam>
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Subject: Re: Reading and writing a big file in Ada (GNAT) on Windows XP
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:41:26 -0400, Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>
wrote:

>Fionn Mac Cumhaill wrote:
>> I have written a very simple program
>> Do I have an Ada problem, a GNAT problem, or a MinGW problem?
  ... snip ...
>
>Is there any chance that the code is doing things like initializing the 
>string to blanks/nulls before each getline and or scanning beyond the 
>value returned for last when doing the replace?

It does indeed initialize the string buffer. I put that in a a quick
bug fix, but the version without the initialization still took 5
hours.