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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Feature or Bug? 2#1111# shifted by 4 is 224
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:56:13 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 2, 5:51 pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> Dennis Hoppe wrote:
>
> > The same behaviour can be reproduced by the code I posted above.
> > Again, if I compile my source mit the -gnato flag, the program
> > compute the shift operation correct.
>
> 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.

                                -- Adam