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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Commercial C To Ada 95 compiler
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 08:53:28 -0700
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Jim Rogers wrote:

> One simple example is indexing past the end of an array.
> C compilers simply will not catch this problem. Ada compilers will.

Actually, note that the following program that indexes off the end
of an array will compile in Ada.

     procedure Index_Past_The_End is
             type Vector is array(Positive range <>) of Integer;
             The_Vector : Vector (1..100) := (others => 0);
    begin
          for I in The_Vector'First .. The_Vector'Last + 1
              loop
                   null;
              end loop;
    end Index_Past_The_End;

Richard Riehle