Re: GNAT: no more exception raised on illformed text file?

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 06/02/2012 08:08, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Seems my FSF GNAT (*) does not raise an exception anymore when
> encountering the last line of a malformed text file; that is, a text
> file whose last line is not terminated with an end‑of‑line.
> 
> Is this on purpose?
I don't know, but it is definitely acceptable, and many would view this
as an improvement.

Ada says nothing about how an end_of_file_mark (and siblings) is
represented in the physical file. Considering that the end of the
physical file acts as an end_of_line_mark followed by an
end_of_page_mark followed by and end_of_file_mark is actually quite user
friendly: currently, all my programs that read files do not check the
end of file, but catch end_error, precisely because it works better on
ill formed files.

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