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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:32:39 -0400
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On 2010-07-23 17:01, Robert A Duff wrote:

> P.S. I work for AdaCore, so I should note that my opinion
> that overflow checks should be turned on by default is
> my own personal opinion.  AdaCore disagrees.  The reason
> is that they are fairly expensive.

Isn't that hardware dependent (the expense, I mean)? My understanding
was that one some architectures overflow checking could be done with
minimal... even zero... impact on a correct program.

Peter