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G. B. <nonlegitur@nmhp.invalid> writes:
> For some N% of Ada programs, will a computation of a proof be
> predictably finished in time? .. Static knowledge is a privilege not
> shared by many, or much, I suppose.

If you haven't got some reasoning in your head that the program is
pointer-correct, you shouldn't deploy it.  If you do have some reasoning
that it is correct, the idea of a proof system is to let you write down
the reasoning in a way that it can be mechanically verified.