From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a4455177648cb9e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Idea: Array Boundary Checks on Write Access Only Date: 1998/06/18 Message-ID: <6mb7jl$edm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 363850114 References: <35851B64.5BF271C4@cl.cam.ac.uk> <6m8v02$r2l$1@xenon.inbe.net> <3588D738.4BB32E5A@cl.cam.ac.uk> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; Gateway2000) Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Jun 18 14:18:29 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3588D738.4BB32E5A@cl.cam.ac.uk>, Markus Kuhn wrote: > > It would be really neat if Ada compilers would keep track not only of > the declared range of a subtype, but also of the effectively possible > range of Integer variables inside a certain program fragment as part > of the flow analysis. Quite a few compilers are capable of this kind of optimization. I suspect that includes Ada compilers. > It would then also be a nice option if the compiler would be > able to dump a list of all the checks that it still had to insert > to give developers a clue of whether they can by intelligently > placing a manual check at the right place make a large number > of automatically inserted less efficient checks unnecessary. That kind of "with help I could optimize better" feedback is still pretty rare. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading