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with System;
with System.Storage_Pools;
with System.Storage_Elements;

package System.Pool_Global is

pragma Elaborate_Body;
--  Needed to ensure that library routines can execute allocators

   --  Allocation strategy:

   --    Call to malloc/free for each Allocate/Deallocate
   --    no user specifiable size
   --    no automatic reclaim
   --    minimal overhead

   --  Pool simulating the allocation/deallocation strategy used by the
   --  compiler for access types globally declared.

   type Unbounded_No_Reclaim_Pool is new
     System.Storage_Pools.Root_Storage_Pool with null record;

   function Storage_Size
     (Pool : Unbounded_No_Reclaim_Pool)
      return System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Count;

   procedure Allocate
     (Pool         : in out Unbounded_No_Reclaim_Pool;
      Address      : out System.Address;
      Storage_Size : System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Count;
      Alignment    : System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Count);

   procedure Deallocate
     (Pool         : in out Unbounded_No_Reclaim_Pool;
      Address      : System.Address;
      Storage_Size : System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Count;
      Alignment    : System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Count);

   --  Pool object used by the compiler when implicit Storage Pool objects are
   --  explicitly referred to. For instance when writing something like:
   --     for T'Storage_Pool use Q'Storage_Pool;
   --  and Q'Storage_Pool hasn't been defined explicitly.

   Global_Pool_Object : Unbounded_No_Reclaim_Pool;

end System.Pool_Global;