Re: Bounded String question

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 11/10/2015 05:48 PM, Bob Duff wrote:
> 
> I suggest rolling your own.  No need for generics.
> 
>    type Bounded_String (Max_Length : Natural := ...) is limited record
>       Length : Natural := 0;
>       Chars  : String (1 .. Max_Length);
>    end record;

Except that using Natural for Max_Length results in GNAT allocating Integer'Last
characters for Chars, which is unlikely to fit on the stack.

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