Re: memory leakages with Ada?

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3C9659B6.6030204@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>>>>declare
>>>>   UC : String := Uppercase("Take that!");
>  >
>> Construction of the variable-size array in the frame of the
>> caller is what is done by the portion of Warren's post shown
>> above.
> 
> Sure, but I have to assume that the value constructed in the
> called routine then needs to be copied to the callers frame
> instead of being constructed in place. I don't see how this
> can be otherwise using a conventional stack, unless you don't
> pop the stack after a call, which would blow the stack away
> if you had the call in a loop.

That code snippet _is_ in the caller's frame.  Uppercase is the
function being called.  The bytes do get copied (obviously) to
the caller's frame, but what you see above is the entire syntax
for doing that.