Re: gnat and heap size

[erij@online.no]

Gerald Kasner <Gerald.Kasner@Physik.Uni-Magdeburg.DE> writes:

> > 
> > > Compiled with gnat-3.14a1 on sparc-solaris2.6 I get:
> > > > ./matrix
> > > Found 42 at index  42 in b
> > 
> > And in this example the array bounds for b can be overwritten as well
> > (since they are stored right before the first array element).
> > 
> 
> RedHat Linux 6.2 on a sparc sun 4 ultra, gnat 3.12p :
> 
> No output. 

The output of this program will depend on the heap layout of the
particular os you are running on.  By increasing the size of b (to a
few thousand) and adding a few thousand to the index in a I write to I
was able to reproduce the output in linux-x86 with gnat 3.13p as well.

-Erik
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