Re: function "&" for strings type cause memory problem.

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>]

bubble wrote:

     type access_string is access all String;
>    String1 : String := (1 .. 10_000_000 => 'a');
>    String2 : String := (1 .. 10_000_000 => 'b');
> 
>       Nstring2 := new String'(String1 & String2);

"&" is probably creating its result on the stack, and there's not enough space 
for a 20-million-character string on your stack, resulting in Storage_Error. You 
can check the GNAT sources if you want to be sure.

You could allocate the space and copy the 2 strings in separately, similar to 
what you do in your 1st test.

Do you really have 10-million-character strings, or are you allocating enough 
for the maximum from VB? If the latter, you can allocate just the amount you 
need. Ada is good at that.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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