From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.50.73.162 with SMTP id m2mr14221989igv.1.1408979356810; Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:09:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.104.235 with SMTP id a98mr5508qgf.40.1408979356774; Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!r2no6984587igi.0!news-out.google.com!j6ni8038qas.0!nntp.google.com!m5no2888521qaj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:09:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55b1078f-dc26-4ae0-ac9f-5af0bfd90992@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=5.81.69.184; posting-account=j15vhwoAAABH_eywb4s2_dWxAM2kkx7W NNTP-Posting-Host: 5.81.69.184 References: <9c5de333-276c-4e3a-be5a-4e5a98cdaa1d@googlegroups.com> <440bf1f1-3e98-47ac-b0c0-f73f170a3603@googlegroups.com> <55b1078f-dc26-4ae0-ac9f-5af0bfd90992@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Integer Overflow Question. From: austin.obyrne769@btinternet.com Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:09:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21907 Date: 2014-08-25T08:09:16-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, August 25, 2014 2:34:29 PM UTC+1, Aay Jay Chan wrote: > From the fact that you don't know how big your types are, it sounds like = you are using pre-defined types. In Ada, the prefered way is to define your= own types with the range that matches your requirements. That way, you wil= l know, at compile time, whether the compiler can implement those types on = the target platform. That has been done in a Validation program - many thanks