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From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)
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Subject: Re: ada paper critic
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sk:

> > function "+"(A, B : My_Natural) return My_Natural is
> > begin
> >     return 0;
> > end "+";
> >
> > Yep this is fun too. If this definition is not in an
> > obvious location it can take a long time to debug
> > when this bites you.

AG:

> Well, you must be a bit slow debugging-wise ;)
> It's a very nice, well-determined, 100% reproducible
> bug. Should only take a few seconds to trace through
> the code and see where it comes from. I only wish
> all the bugs were that easy...

Not so sure: if you inline that "+" function, the optimization
is on, and the "victim" is not prepared to search such a strange
bug it guess it could take more than "a few seconds"!
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