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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada and string literals
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codeallergy <romainbeckers@gmail.com> writes:

> Okay. assuming dat we use GNAT 2012
>
> Literal1 : aliased constant String := "LITERAL"; 
> Literal2 : aliased constant String := "LITERAL"; 
> Literal3 : aliased constant String := "LITERAL"; 
>
> how the above code is handled ?
>
> compiler duplicate the string three times into the data section or

Yes, that's the most likely implementation.

> the three constants will share the same string or

That won't work, because Literal1 = Literal2 must be False.
If you leave out "aliased", then the compiler might share.

> one string into the data section but duplicated at the run time ?

That would work, but I don't see why a compiler would do that.

- Bob