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From: Phil Thornley <phil.jpthornley@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Trouble cutting loops with SPARK. Advice?
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 03:41:55 -0800 (PST)
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> Great! Thanks for the help. That does make things a bit clearer. The assertion
> you showed works for me as well, but I'll try to take away a more general
> lesson from this. I'm in the process of proving a more complete program free
> of runtime errors and so far I've got about 1/2 of it done. However, I'm
> pretty sure the situation I described here comes up several times in the
> remaining code (with variations, of course).

Peter

Glad that worked - I'm always happy to help with SPARK problems
(particularly proof ones). If you wany any help by email (perhaps
because the code is too big for a news message) use my address on
www.sparksure.com.

Cheers,

Phil