Re: Bug in Ada (SuSe 10.2) ?

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Feb 20, 10:31 am, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@acm.nospam.org> wrote:
> Adam Beneschan wrote:
>
> > That would perhaps be taking things too far.  I'm sure the reason that
> > this "safe mode" is not the default is because the needed overflow
> > checks are relatively expensive, depending on the processor.  It's a
> > trade-off.  But Ada is intended to be a tool to be put to practical
> > use, not a statue for us to all gather around and admire its purity of
> > spirit.
>
> I think that was true originally, on certain processors, but I think it's not
> still true. I never accepted that it was a valid reason for the defaults not to
> be Ada. The simple explanation is that GNAT, by default, is not an Ada compiler.
> You need at a minimum -gnato and -fstack-check for it to be so.
>
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> Jeff Carter
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