From: Fraser Wilson <fraser@sinopsis.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem.
Date: 1999/06/16
Date: 1999-06-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <929556835.117.47@news.remarQ.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3767D042.C8A8B131@cajunbro.com
paene lacrimavi postquam "George W. Bayles" <georgeb@cajunbro.com> scripsit:
>Ada is a different language for different purposes. You don't
>expect a compiled Ada program to run on anything but the
>specific processor/system it was compiled for.
Well ... unless you use one of the Ada -> JVM compilers of course.
>Perhaps because the compiler is allowed to omit the array bounds
>checking when it can prove it is safe - which in real programs is
>almost always the case. So, the performance penalty is minimized.
I can see this in for loops, but without a range subtype feature,
the possibilities for eliding this check in other situations seem
minimal. Can you have arrays over an enumerated type in Java?
This also reduces runtime checks.
Fraser.
(change i's to y's for my real email address)
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1999-06-12 0:00 Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem nabbasi
1999-06-12 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-06-12 0:00 ` jerry
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-12 0:00 ` kirck
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Fred
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Mark Hood
1999-06-15 0:00 ` mike
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-15 0:00 ` jerry
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-16 0:00 ` jerry
1999-06-15 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-16 0:00 ` George W. Bayles
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-06-15 0:00 ` rich
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-15 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-16 0:00 ` bill
1999-06-16 0:00 ` George W. Bayles
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson [this message]
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Chris Dollin
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-17 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-18 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-06-16 0:00 ` George W. Bayles
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-17 0:00 ` George W. Bayles
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-17 0:00 ` bob
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-16 0:00 ` kirk
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1999-06-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-24 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-17 0:00 ` bob
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-18 0:00 ` mike
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-19 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-19 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Mike Silva
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1999-06-19 0:00 ` Kio
1999-06-20 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-16 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-17 0:00 ` D'Arcy Smith
1999-06-17 0:00 ` john
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-06-18 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-23 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-24 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-24 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-06-15 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-15 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Mark Hood
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-17 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-17 0:00 ` David Botton
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1999-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-14 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-30 0:00 ` John Merryweather Cooper
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