From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Subject: Re: Allocators design flaw
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 18:14:46 +0300
Date: 2017-10-14T18:14:46+03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ort9le$1nrn$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ort6u9$1iul$3@gioia.aioe.org
Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2017-10-14 16:12, Victor Porton wrote:
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>>> If any it is _alloc_memory() flaw, not Ada's.
>>
>> It is an Ada flaw, because Ada must be able to interact with legacy C
>> libraries.
>
> You can call _alloc_memory, where is a problem?
>
> If _alloc_memory() does not respect target platform restrictions, how is
> that Ada's problem?
The Ada problem is that that _alloc_memory() cannot be integrated with Ada
allocators. The problem is that (in principle) Ada may request a greater
alignment than C ever has, and this way Ada allocators become incompatible
with C.
Note that I filed a request to change the RM about allocators.
--
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-14 2:53 Allocators design flaw Victor Porton
2017-10-14 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 13:52 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 14:03 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 15:18 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 15:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 16:42 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 16:13 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 16:38 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:12 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:20 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:24 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 15:17 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 15:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 16:34 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 17:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 17:24 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 18:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 14:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-10-14 15:14 ` Victor Porton [this message]
2017-10-14 15:42 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 16:29 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 20:07 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 21:26 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-21 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-10-14 8:02 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 13:59 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 14:35 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 15:11 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-14 15:56 ` Simon Wright
2017-10-14 16:22 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-29 16:01 ` David Thompson
2017-10-14 14:11 ` Victor Porton
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