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From: "G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic allocation in the predefined language environment
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 16:23:18 +0200
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On 06.07.15 16:16, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> On 06/07/15 14:06, Bob Duff wrote:
>> Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org> writes:
>>> ...I suppose most implementations will
>>> raise a Storage_Error exception but the standard does not specify how
>>> the packages are to implemented so a program could simply crash and
>>> would still conform to the standard.
>>
>> No, running out of memory raises Storage_Error.  The implementation
>> cannot "simply crash".
>
> It could be implemented in C or assembly language and than it could
> definitely crash.

It could be written in C or assembly, but then if it crashed
on out of memory, it is not an implementation. (I'll trust
co-author of the Ada LRM, Bob Duff, on this.)