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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
> Yes yes, but at run-time the program allocates space dynamically, as
> needed, _in_ the buffers and queues, though usually not by the "new"
> keyword but by some application-defined "allocate buffer block" or
> "enqueue" operation. And these allocations can fail at run-time, at
> least under overload conditions.

I'm still kind of surprised to hear that.  I thought Ada programs (once
running) were supposed to never fail, which means no dynamic anything,
just a few allocations that might fail during startup, and then run with
those resources and only those resources.