Re: Ariane (yet again...)

[Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@frqnet.de>]

Mike Silva schrieb:
> 
> Before anybody starts throwing anything, my question is very specific
> -- does anybody know exactly what the Ariane report means when it
> speaks of "protecting" conversions?  The subject came up in
> alt.folklore.computers and it seems there are at least three possible
> meanings: (a) turn off the runtime checks for a given conversion, (b)
> put some code before the conversion to explicitly check for in-range,
> or (c) have a local exception handler to catch the error.

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