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Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Jun 2, 5:51 pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
> <spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
>>
>> With[out] -gnato and -fstack-check (and some would say -gnatE), GNAT is not an Ada
>> compiler.
> 
> So how is that relevant?  Without those flags, the compiler will
> violate Ada semantics in some specific and well-defined cases, but
> users can still rightly expect Ada semantics to be followed in every
> other case.

It may not be relevant to the specific problem, but I thought the OP might find 
it useful information, since many new users of GNAT are not aware that it is not 
an Ada compiler with its default settings.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Brave Sir Robin ran away."
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