Re: Tasking, AWS and segmentation faults

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thursday, 5 April 2012 12:03:55 UTC+1, Georg Bauhaus  wrote:
>> On 05.04.12 12:38, tonyg wrote:
>> > Thanks for your help guys its working lovely now and I know
>> > something new!
>> > 
>> > What I did was (after reading the advice here) was I used a pointer
>> > and declared a 'new type' and then passed that pointer around.
>> 
>> For the sake of completeness, and without knowing what
>> you are actually doing, so I could be quite wrong, you
>> can still pass Pointer.all around (or rename this and
>> pass it around as before).
>> Large arrays are typically passed around by reference.
>> Dereferencing keeps the impact of using pointers local,
>> and easy to change again, just in case.
>
> ooh ooh I forgot to dereference it! jeepers. Thanks for that you have
> just extended the life of my webserver beyond a fwe requests!

I think you mean deallocation; and yes, indeed you should!

What Georg meant was that your called subprograms could still take array
parameters:

   type Arr is array (Natural range <>) of Thing;

   procedure Sub (A : in out Arr);

   type Arr_P is access Arr;

   Actual : Arr_P := new Arr (0 .. 65535);

   Sub (A => Actual.all);