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Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to
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Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 05:42:59 -0700
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On 05/23/2015 04:14 AM, Peter Chapin wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 2015, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 
>> GNAT, for example, by default is not an Ada compiler.
> 
> Is this still true? The latest GNAT has overflow checking on by default... or
> are there other issues?

GNAT has generally required -gnata to activate assertion checks, -gnatn to
activate cross-pkg inlining, -gnato to activate overflow checks, -fstack-check
to give Storage_Error rather than a segfault, and -gnatE to use the ARM dynamic
elaboration checks. Even if overflow checking is now on by default, I suspect
GNAT is still not an Ada compiler by default.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C++ is like giving an AK-47 to a monk, shooting him
full of crack and letting him loose in a mall and
expecting him to balance your checking account
'when he has the time.'"
Drew Olbrich
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