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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: problem solved (and now I know why)
Date: 2000/04/15
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Stephen Arnold <arnold.steve@ensco.com> writes:

> However, one question remains:  Why did windoze not catch this problem? 
> My original (and incorrect) code runs just fine on win95, win98, and
> even NT4 (which my instructor uses).  The original code passed his test
> driver with flying colors, and he tests *everything* (including the
> Overflow exception).

Your program was erroneous, which means that anything could have
happened.

> Is there any way for GNAT to catch this at run-time, or is it completely
> up to the OS?  I guess I'll be sticking to Linux from now on...

I think there are Windows libraries with a special version of malloc()
which detects such errors.  I don't know how to use them with GNAT,
though.