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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: Storage Pools and alloca
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:32:59 -0400
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"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> AFAIK, the "alloca" functionality could be added to Ada using the storage
> pool facility.

Someone already had that idea 25 years ago:

procedure Op (N : Natural) is
   S : String (1 .. N);
begin


>     1) Does any Ada compiler provide this type of storage pool?
Yes -- all of them.

>     2) If this type of storage pool was available, would you find it
useful?
Yes.  I do already.

>     3) Would an "alloca" storage pool be a worthwhile addition to Ada 0x?
No, because it's already part of the language.