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From: Ken Garlington <kennieg@flash.net>
Subject: Re: 'size attribute inheritance
Date: 1997/08/16
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Matthew said
> 
> <<Does unitialized variable checking only apply to array index variables?
> And do you have an AARM reference?>.
> 
> There is no "checking for uninitialized
> " variable feature in Ada 95.
> 
> There are requirements to check for values being in range in certain cases,
> don't get confused between these two, an uninitialized variable may well
> be in range!

I suppose this is technically true, but couldn't the effect of
pragam Normalize_Scalars, when combined with 'Valid and/or range
checking, be informally described as checking for uninitialized
variables?