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From: "Jeff Creem" <jcreem@atetola.mv.com>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?--Warning Significant Thread
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I almost hate to respond in such a heated thread since I am sure it will
get lost in the shuffle but.
"Kieran Mckey" <kieran.mckey@baesystems.com> wrote in message

> enabled or not. Furthermore, run-time checks are required for exception
> handling which can provide valuable diagnostic data. IMO too many

Apart from everything else you said, the above statement is not exactly
correct. You can suppress checks and still get exception handling for
explicitly raised exceptions as well as those exceptions which are "free".
Granted the meaning of the latter is compiler and target specific but there
is
a big difference between suppressing automatic run time checks and loosing
exception handling all together...

Jeff