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From: kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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In article <3B6F5BB2.A879B933@worldnet.att.net>, James Rogers wrote:
>   generic
>   
>   Max_Size : Positive;
>   type Items is private;
>   
>   package Inventory is
>   
>      subtype Buf_Index is Positive range 1..Max_Size;
>      type Parts_Buffer is array(Buf_Index) of Items;

By the way, is there a reason why you didn't just use a modulo
type as the array index, one that will automatically wrap around
1..Max_Size-1?