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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: Very Large Arrays (VLAs)
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Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:

> Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> > To allocate them is just a matter of available virtual
> > memory. Clearly if you declare
> > 
> >   type x is array (Natural) of Natural;
> >   v : x;
> > 
> > you are NOT going to succeed if you have only 32-bits of
> > address space :-)

> Unless of course Natural (being a subtype of Integer) is only 16 
> bits long (which is all we can rely on ;-), and we have a 32 bit
> environment. I'm not sure there are that many architectures like
> that, but the older segmented intel architectures may have been 
> in this category.

IIRC, the 80286 architecture only has 24 address bits.