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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]
Message-ID: <kqtkmq$c0a$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kqsd6d$1ik$2@dont-email.me

"Jeffrey Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
news:kqsd6d$1ik$2@dont-email.me...
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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.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-02  4:24 UTC|newest]

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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