Re: storage size pragmas

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <8f754a$t03$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:

> In article <8f6kko$944$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
>
> > Certian checks that are deemed by the compiler writers to be
> > more expensive than they are worth are turned off by default
>
> False (Ted, you don't know GNAT that well, so be careful about
> claims like this :-)
>
> There are many reasons why we choose to have certain modes
> as the default, the one you gave above is NOT the most
...

That's right. You have discussed all that here before. Blame my faulty
memory again. Perhaps I should start eating more beets or something.
:-)

> > even if that means it technicly isn't following the Ada
> standard.
>
> Nope, that's completely inaccurate. The standard has nothing to
> say
> about default options, and neither do the validation tests. All

Well, that was a simplification which I suppose was bound to draw ire.
What I was trying to get at is that if you just use the default flags,
you do *not* get a standard Ada compilation.

That's a bit odd in the Ada world as far as I can tell. But that kind of
thing is quite common in the C and C++ world, so I guess it shouldn't
really suprise anyone.

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