From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Simple ADA/C Question
Date: 1997/03/07
Date: 1997-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.857783465@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.97Mar7135754@alexandria
Jon said
<<"You mean Keith's 'assertion' version won't give an error at compile
time - surely at runtime (assuming no pragma supress or some such)
this will raise CE if violated".>>
Yes, but in such a case I feel it is *extremely* important to generate
the diagnostic at compile time rather than at runtime. A constraint error
may cause all sorts of peculiar effects (by silently terminating a task,
or by being caught by a when others exception handler).
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-25 0:00 Simple ADA/C Question root
1997-02-26 0:00 ` Bob Klungle
1997-02-26 0:00 ` root
1997-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-28 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Anders Eliasson
1997-02-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-02-26 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-02-26 0:00 ` root
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-27 0:00 ` root
1997-02-27 0:00 ` root
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-03-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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