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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:22:32 +0000 (UTC)
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:
: 
:> Both ObjectAda and GNAT do this. I don't know whether it is at
:> all possible to intruct ObjectAda not to "preallocate" constant
:> string pointers.
: 
: This code
: 
:   package New_String is
: 
:      type String_P is access all String;
:      S : constant String_P := new String'("foo!");
: 
:   end New_String;

If the pointers are to constant strings (I should have stressed
this) there is no call to __gnat_malloc. As is

      type String_P is access constant String;
      S : constant String_P := new String'("foo!");


-- Georg