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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Subject: Re: Compiler checking of String lengths during assignment (Newbie
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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 11:03:34 +0100
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Le vendredi 09 janvier 2015 =C3=A0 14:50 -0800, isaac1.0@gmail.com a =C3=A9=
crit :=20
> Aren't Ada compilers supposed to prevent stupid errors like this? Or is t=
here some user stupidity here that I'm not seeing...?

No, at compile time is only detect error that are statically computable.

Here i+2 and i+4 are not, i  is not a constant. So a runtime check is
issued.

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