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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/11
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Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com> writes:

> Robert A Duff wrote:
> > On the other hand, I once wrote something like:
> > 
> >     X: array(1..One_Zillion) of Integer := (others => 0);
> > 
> > and the DEC Ada compiler blew up at compile time, apparently trying to
> > be clever at run time.
> 
> DEC Ada creates the allocator in the object file if everything is
                      ^^^^^^^^^
> static. That's why you can't compile this.

There's no allocator there -- it's just a package-level variable.

I think on DEC Ada on VAX/VMS, the executable file would *not* contain
all those zeros -- just an indication that the OS should create them as
zero if and when necessary.  (Assuming One_Zillion is made small enough
that the compiler doesn't blow up.)

- Bob