Re: Q: memory management

[Hannes Haug <Hannes.Haug@Student.Uni-Tuebingen.de>]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> writes:

    Robert> Hannes said "Imagine bignum arithmetic with garbage
    Robert> collection. If I'd have just some bignums there would be
    Robert> too many garbage collections."

    Robert> No, that's not a good example, there still would be no
    Robert> need in Ada to be doing low level untyped allocation.

    Robert> The necessary data structures can be described in Ada, and
    Robert> allocated in a safely typed manner without additional
    Robert> space overhead.

No space overhead if you deal with unconstrained arrays?

I use gmp-2 (the GNU bignum package). Perhaps I'll never look at the
contents of the memory regions form Ada. I need no safely typed Ada
structure.

Does GNAT's allocate call malloc? That would be an additional overhead
of one word (that depends on the malloc, of course) for malloc's header.

 -hannes