Re: Interfacing to C: big structures

[Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>]

Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:

> Isn't that part of "runtime"?  I'm not sure I get your point.

Um, thinking about it from that point of view, you are all quite
right, of course.

When I've had/heard of restrictions, it's only ever been in
environments where it was the use of the word 'new' that was frowned
upon rather than the actual allocation of memory after execution
startup. Even there it seems reasonable to fight for the right to do
explicit one-off startup allocations - no risk of fragmentation if the
memory's never freed.