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Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Fixed.Count raises Storage_Error
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rieachus@comcast.net writes:

> On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 5:18:49 PM UTC-4, Victor Porton wrote:
>  
>> Let's decide who of us will report the bug, so that the report won't happen 
>> to be duplicate?
>
> How about no one reports this non-existent error?  This is a category
> of problem that the ARG decided long ago should be considered
> pathologies.  The original case was a program that checked whether a
> task returned by a function was Terminated.  (The "correct" answer was
> True, but the program was totally useless for anything other than
> making compiler developers lives miserable.)
>
> A string which ends at Integer'Last is either huge enough to raise
> Storage_Error anyway, or a clever compiler test that exists only to
> make compiler developers lives miserable.  I'm retired now, so I can
> say that without insulting customers.  And as Randy pointed out
> anything is allowed to raise Storage_Error.  That might not be user
> friendly, but in this case (Strings ending at Integer'Last) no
> sensible user is going to run into the problem.

Who knows, AdaCore recently reported (in their blog) an obscure
customer-reported problem in Text_IO which resulted in them doing a
formal analysis and finding 2 further bugs ... if that approach
continues, this obscure problem might get fixed.