Re: Storage Pools and alloca

["David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: Storage Pools and alloca


> I should have been a little clearer. Ada has always allowed a programmer
to
> locally declare an object whose size can only be determined at runtime,
and
> this facility can be used in many places where C programmers would use
> "alloca". The way I should have worded this question is that given Ada's
> ability to declare dynamically sized objects, is there ever a need for an
> "alloca" storage pool? My educated guess would be no, but I thought it
might
> be worthwhile to run this idea past the Ada community.
The use of "declare blocks" in Ada is equivalent to the use of alloca in C.

For example:

declare
   The_String : constant String :=
<some-string-expression-of-unknown-length>;
begin
   <use The_String in some statement(s)>
end; -- The_String "deallocated" here where it goes out of scope