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From: Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:47:41 +0200
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Date: 2005-10-28T13:47:41+02:00
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> The C++ compiler also has a history of issues... not stopping
> a release.
> Why is it considered good enough in spite of the issues?
> I guess that's the meaning of "good enough"?

I guess that for any product there exists an arbitrary meaning of "good 
enough" that can prevent it from being released, ever.

The version of GNAT that I got with my Linux distribution allows me to 
overflow the Integer type without any exceptions at run time (and I can 
also define my own range and overflow it without error). I guess that 
with some chosen meaning of "good enough" this compiler would not be 
released.


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