Re: heap exhausted during elaboration

[xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan)]

In article <39800150.424F8700@hotmail.com>, ****  <npriebe@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I use a gnat compiler under windows NT and during the elaboration
>time ,I get a error message : storage error : heap exhausted.
>I use many generic packages like :
>with package ... is new ...
>may this is a common problem of  a exhausted heap

>What can I do? How can I increase the heap or
>do something else?

>please help...

There are a couple of mis-steps you can make that try to allocate
arrays the size of UNIVERSAL_INTEGER_MIN..UNIVERSAL_INTEGER_MAX or
whatever it is called that have been discussed here a few times;
perhaps it isn't that your program is so big, just that a couple of
your data items are hiddenly huge, by mistake.

Others here can comment more exactly on the issue, I just noticed that
it hasn't been mentioned at all yet, so I thought I'd stick in my
amateur oar to roil the waters.

Cheers!

xanthian.


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