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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: variable length strings
Date: 27 Oct 2004 06:50:51 -0500
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In article <uwtxcla1n.fsf@obry.org>, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org> writes:
> 
> Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> writes:
> 
>> And will continuous appending to an Unbounded_String not give the same
>> risks?
> 
> Probably but a program has certainly lot more heap space than stack space.

Your "certainly" is misplaced since you do not restrict your claim to
a particular environment or program.

On VMS (even VAX) the stack space for the main DEC Ada task is limited
to roughly 1 Gigabyte (minus some overhead).  The heap space is limited
to the same size, minus the size of the program.  As programs get larger
the availability of stack space over heap space grows.