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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: Representation Freezing Rules vs. Storage management
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:24:38 +0000 (UTC)
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* Reinhold May wrote:
> The application has definitions like:
>
>    a : array(1 .. 10) of integer;

type A_Array is array(1 .. 10) of Integer;
a : A_Array;
for a'Address use get_address(A_Array'Size, A_Array'Alignment);

> the type is defined implicitely rather than explicitely.  So the
> type would have to be defined explicitly on each occurrence.

Ack.

> The type of a variable is not always easy to find out and trying
> that would require a full  Ada  parser  (but  of  course  that's
> feasible).

You do not know what you type in?

> Any pointer into the right direction is very welcome.

Use dynamic allocation from a user defined pool.