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X'Pool_Address
for any object X returns the address
of X within its storage pool. This is the same as
X'Address
, except that for an unconstrained array whose
bounds are allocated just before the first component,
X'Pool_Address
returns the address of those bounds,
whereas X'Address
returns the address of the first
component.
Here, we are interpreting “storage pool” broadly to mean “wherever
the object is allocated”, which could be a user-defined storage pool,
the global heap, on the stack, or in a static memory area. For an
object created by new
, Ptr.all'Pool_Address
is
what is passed to Allocate
and returned from Deallocate
.