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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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From: Markus E Leypold
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com> writes:

> On Feb 26, 3:44 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
>> Further, why do you presume that heap is larger than stack?
>> AFAIK, nothing in RM requires or implies that.
>
> Past experience. If that's not the case for some implementation then
> fine, but I suspect it's more often the case then not. I'm pretty sure
> we've seen newbie examples on the newsgroup where they create
> unconstrained objects (is that the right term?) on the stack and then
> wonder why their program doesn't work.

I'm also pretty sure that in most of those cases creating them on the
heap wouldn't work either. Especially if the unconstrained parameter
was determining an array size and was of type Natural or Positive.

Regards -- Markus