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From: Phil Thornley <phil.jpthornley@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about SPARK flow error.
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On 19 June, 19:14, "Gavino" <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
[...]
> You could shut the Examiner up by initialising Index (eg to
> Index_type'First), but it doesn't seem a satisfactory solution.

The problem with this solution (which Peter Amey always referred to as
a 'junk initialisation' - an excellent name) is that it can hide a
genuine data flow error if there really is a path that does not give
Index a value.

Cheers,

Phil