Re: Array and memory usage

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> Note that it is *probably* generating code that will initialize the objects
> as they are created. It is probably also not the most efficient way that the
> initialization could be done, either. I've seen major problems with embedded
> code where we've wanted to initialize global RAM data and couldn't get
> static initialization of it using the usual Ada mechanisms. I've also seen
> where initialization of the type would generate code to initialize each
> field of the record with function calls but initialization of the object
> with an aggregate would result in a simple memory move of the whole thing.

Ok so this is something the compiler supplies and this could be
different with another compiler?

> If you care about code size and efficiency, you can find a number of
> "surprises" and "gotchas" with Ada.

What do you mean?

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