From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e01fe1b326df26d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Division by zero Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 11:36:00 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <79ahr0jozmqb$.10jzllrcjpmsv.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1118572607 81348 212.85.156.195 (12 Jun 2005 10:36:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:36:47 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dcc.fc.up.pt X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11296 Date: 2005-06-12T11:36:00+01:00 As others have indicated, static expressions are evaluated at compile time, others at run time. That's the language rule. However, I tend to agree a compiler warning would be useful here, and I'm kind of surprised GNAT does not seem to have it (even with the -gnatwa "all warnings on" option). I would not be surprised if some GNAT *Pro* users have it.