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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:35:36 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
>> The C++ compiler also has a history of issues... not stopping
>> a release.
>> Why is it considered good enough in spite of the issues?
>> I guess that's the meaning of "good enough"?
>
> I guess that for any product there exists an arbitrary meaning of
> "good enough" that can prevent it from being released, ever.
>
> The version of GNAT that I got with my Linux distribution allows me to
> overflow the Integer type without any exceptions at run time (and I
> can also define my own range and overflow it without error). I guess
> that with some chosen meaning of "good enough" this compiler would
> not be released.

Even with "-gnato"????