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Date: 2001-07-04T19:43:20+02:00

On  4/07, Colin Paul Gloster wrote:

| A factor of 7 implies that the programs are not equivalent. [..]

A typical example of that non-equivalence is a user not turning off exception
checks. An Ada program with exceptions is not the equivalent of a C program
without them.