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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Discriminated record question
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:18:09 -0500
Date: 2002-05-07T14:18:09-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <udga38i7bj1g89@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1020775682.16866.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org

Grein, Christoph wrote in message ...
>(A different model could be implemented by implicitly allocating on the
heap as
>much storage as is currently needed. But this model is rarely used - is
it
>currently used at all by some compiler?)

Janus/Ada does that (in both Ada 83 and Ada 95). I used to think that
that was the only reasonable model, but it is clear that the implicit
heap use is a bad thing in certain environments. (Of course, that can be
avoided by simply not declaring such a thing...)

           Randy Brukardt






  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-07 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-07 12:45 Discriminated record question Grein, Christoph
2002-05-07 19:18 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2002-05-09  2:52   ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-09 20:29     ` Randy Brukardt
2002-05-08 10:10 ` Mark Doherty
2002-05-09  2:56   ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-15 15:34     ` Mark Doherty
2002-05-15 18:12       ` Jeffrey Carter
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2002-05-16  5:03 Grein, Christoph
2002-05-07 12:17 Mark Doherty
2002-05-10  9:27 ` Emmanuel Briot
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