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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Does a null pointer always raise Constraint_Error?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:29:33 GMT
Date: 2000-12-14T14:29:33+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hP4_5.7975$bw.730724@news.flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 91agoe$kvf$1@nnrp1.deja.com

"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:91agoe$kvf$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
: In article <87zoi0w0ey.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>,
:   Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
: > I would argue that a.all and b.all are undefined,
: > but because of their type, their values can be
: > compared with a well-defined result anyway.
:
: I understand that argument, but I cannot see that
: it is backed by the language in the RM. Furthermore,
: there is an ACATS test that disputes this conclusion,
: and no one has ever contested this test.

The ACATS test seems to be consistent with the rest of the language. For
example, I'd assume that the following wouldn't work, either:

if (A/0) = (B/0) then...





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2000-12-12 16:23           ` Does a null pointer always raise Constraint_Error? Wayne Magor
2000-12-12 20:27             ` Keith Thompson
2000-12-13  0:46               ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13  8:58                 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-12-13 13:56                   ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-13 14:25                     ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-12-13 14:58                       ` Florian Weimer
2000-12-13 15:17                         ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-12-13 15:40                         ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13 20:07                           ` Florian Weimer
2000-12-14 13:08                             ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-14 14:29                               ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2000-12-15  1:45                                 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13 15:37                       ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-12 20:31             ` Keith Thompson
2000-12-13 19:58               ` Florian Weimer
2000-12-13  0:43             ` Robert Dewar
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