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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0310bb11aeb7260 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.43.48.202 with SMTP id ux10mr32758562icb.6.1321479194959; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:33:14 -0800 (PST) Path: h5ni62550pba.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!r9g2000vbw.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Gautier write-only Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT 4.4.5 order of conditional processing? Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:31:48 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8b60c7a5-8b9e-4573-9470-0c3aca099dbc@r9g2000vbw.googlegroups.com> References: <9ig1t4F4uaU1@mid.individual.net> <87a589f9-e675-4672-a8c5-77e4a9db289e@g21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> <22d4b4be-1a2e-435c-9b92-fbda6999a4f3@d17g2000yql.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.63.101.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1321479194 29884 127.0.0.1 (16 Nov 2011 21:33:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:33:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r9g2000vbw.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.63.101.242; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HNKRUAELSC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.57 Safari/534.24,gzip(gfe) Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:14429 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2011-11-16T13:31:48-08:00 List-Id: On 15 nov, 22:49, awdorrin wrote: > Figured that was is, sloppy programming that just managed to work (for > 20 years) due to a compiler implementation... ;-) Waw, so there was an Ada compiler doing (erroneously of course) a silent short-circuit ?... The only system I know doing that is Turbo Pascal (and descendants). There was even a compiler switch {$B+(/-)} saying "after here, short- circuit is off(/on)". A pure mess, as you guess... ______________________________________________________________________________ Gautier's Ada programming -- http://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Ada NB: follow the above link for a valid e-mail address