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Date: 2001-06-10T14:14:16+02:00

On 10/06, Gerhard H�ring wrote:

| Last time I tried to do OS programming with GNAT, I couldn't create dynamic
| objects, because the GNAT runtime calls malloc, which doesn't exist in the
| Linux kernel. kmalloc does exist, of course.

You are the one to blame in this case: if you do kernel programming, then you
have to call kmalloc() yourself (and carefully), rather than using Ada's
high-level allocator. Another alternative would be to use storage pools that
call kmalloc(), this way you could use new and Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation
instances from your code.