Re: Ada student homework ? I give up ...

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <3A128778.54D5BE34@cadwin.com>,
  Nicolas Brunot <n.brunot@cadwin.com> wrote:
> Robert Dewar wrote :
>
> > First of all, you are mischaracterizing a response of mine,
> > if you don't believe that, go back over the archives, I said
> > absolutely NOTHING of the kind.
>
> Well sorry I couldn't resist, just check  :
> > where you'll find :
> "Actually the compiler did not crash, it complained it was out
of memory
> (Storage_Error raised during compilation)"

But you mentioned a syntactically incorrect program -- there
was nothing syntactically incorrect about the program here, it
is a perfectly fine program, it is just that it requires a lot
of memory to compile. If you have enough memory it will compile
fine. If you don't have the memory, the compiler terminates
with a Storage_Error. In the current version, the message is
cleaner, but the functional situation is the same, if the
compiler has enough memory it will compile, if not it will
terminate indicating it does not have enough storage.

It was your reference to a syntactically incorrect program
that made me know you were misquoting me!
while


>
> answering
>
http://ada.eu.org/pipermail/comp.lang.ada/2000-September/002443.
html
> where you'll find :
> >So just when I think I'm getting the idea of Ada95, along
comes this
> >problem, demonstrated by an admittedly contrived program.
Gnat 3.13p
> crashes
> >trying to compile this:
> >
> >   with ada.float_text_io;
> >   with ada.numerics;
> >   with ada.numerics.elementary_functions;
> >   use ada.numerics.elementary_functions;
> >   procedure crash is
> >      f, g : float;
> >   begin
> >      ada.float_text_io.get(f);
> >      g := 2.7183 ** (-5340)/f + 21.5;
> >   end crash;
>
>


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