From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Thick bindings to a C library and gnattest: suggestions?
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 23:24:57 -0500
Date: 2013-07-01T23:24:57-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Jeffrey Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message
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> (Aside: in a world in which GB of RAM are common, it seems odd for a
> language to require explicit heap allocation, and the associated memory
> management, for objects that fit in memory, but not in the stack. Surely
> it would be better for the language to allow the developer to simply
> declare the object, and for the compiler to decide where it will fit, and
> allocate it and manage its memory appropriately. A means to disable
> automatic heap allocation would be needed for systems that disallow heap
> allocation.)
Amen! I've been saying that for 30+ years; perhaps someday it will really be
true in commonly used compilers.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-01 9:02 Thick bindings to a C library and gnattest: suggestions? ziotom78
2013-07-01 9:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-01 11:11 ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-07-01 11:41 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-01 12:00 ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-07-01 12:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-01 19:07 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-01 12:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-01 12:41 ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-07-01 12:47 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-02 8:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-02 8:33 ` Maurizio Tomasi
2013-07-02 8:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-02 16:58 ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-02 17:00 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-01 17:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-02 4:24 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2013-07-02 4:37 ` Shark8
2013-07-02 5:04 ` tmoran
2013-07-02 22:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-03 12:02 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-07-02 3:16 ` Jerry
2013-07-02 4:02 ` Shark8
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