From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a0833bbed8752e1f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!news.rfc1149.net!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: variable length strings Date: 27 Oct 2004 14:12:20 +0200 Organization: Avian Carrier & Friends Sender: sam@beeblebrox.rfc1149.net Message-ID: <87wtxcicm3.fsf@beeblebrox.rfc1149.net> References: <1861614.TWv5A9FgVL@linux1.krischik.com> <4178e979_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <1195374.UMjBCk7lO1@linux1.krischik.com> <1154613.ipZcUgduzp@linux1.krischik.com> <1174011.lJ1dcgRM3Q@linux1.krischik.com> <1098814048.280053@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anyanka.rfc1149.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1098879302 91950 81.56.47.149 (27 Oct 2004 12:15:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:15:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:660:330f:f810:200:39ff:fe25:3aa2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5764 Date: 2004-10-27T14:12:20+02:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Larry" == Larry Kilgallen writes: Larry> In article , Pascal Obry Larry> writes: >> Probably but a program has certainly lot more heap space than >> stack space. Larry> Your "certainly" is misplaced since you do not restrict your Larry> claim to a particular environment or program. Pascal was probably thinking about multi-tasking programs, where the default stack size per task is usually small while the heap is generally limited only by the available memory. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam