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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>
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Subject: Overflow checking in GNAT (Was: Quality systems)
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

 > It is to be noted that by
> default, GNAT has overflow checking disabled as well.

[ GNAT is the GNU Ada compiler ]

Yes.  And that is a most annoying choice, which I really do not 
understand.  Luckily this is something which can be fixed in a good 
command interpreter, but it is still a problem, when one has to help 
beginners getting started using GNAT.

Jacob
-- 
"If you think Tuck has said something that is completely
  wrong, you are almost certainly missing something :-)"