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    Blog Posts by Emmanuel Briot

    Emmanuel Briot

    Emmanuel Briot

    Emmanuel Briot has been with AdaCore between 1998 and 2017. He has been involved in a variety of projects, in particular oriented towards graphical user interfaces, including GtkAda, GPS, XML/Ada, GnatTracker and our internal CRM. He holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale des Telecommunications (Brest, France).

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    May 13, 2015

    Emmanuel Briot

    Larger than it looks (storage pools)

    This post shows how to implement a special storage pool that allocates an extra header every time it allocates some memory. This can be used to store…