From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3b637950a34ec2d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-07 12:18:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!peer1-sjc1.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!sn-xit-04!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Discriminated record question Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:18:09 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23667 Date: 2002-05-07T14:18:09-05:00 List-Id: 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