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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Unconstrained base subtype questions
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:51:29 +0000 (UTC), Alex Mentis wrote:

> Using variables gave me the behavior I was expecting. I didn't know Ada
> did infinite precision arithmetic on static expressions.

It tries:

   P : constant := 1_000_000;
   I : constant := 2**P - 2**P;

will likely fail to compile.

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