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From: martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie)
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Subject: Re: Ada style of passing 'in' parameters considered dangerous?
Date: 9 Feb 2003 20:40:54 -0800
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> wrote in message 
> >     Reciprocal(Foo, Foo);

I think I'm right in saying that SPARK would catch this.

It would be nice if compilers at least warned of this
(simple) case. I imagine that the work involved in spotting
aliased versions of this problem might be a bit expensive($)
to get compiler implementor to include. :-(