Re: In case statment? (was Re: is exception when others => null; smart?)

["Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>]

"Peter Richtmyer" <prichtmyer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi> wrote in message
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> >
> > But if you move the assignment to after begin, the Gnat behaviour
changes:
> > ...
> >      a : character;
> >      for a'size use 8;
> >      b : boolean := false;
> >      for b'address use a'address;
> >      for b'size use 8;
> >
> > begin
> >    a := character'val(2#11111111#);
> > ...
> > and the program execution ends up under when others =>
> >
> > Anders
>
> Were you using Gnat ?
>
> I tried it your way and still got the exception (which is the
> behavior I like). I also tried it your way, but with the 'a'
> data definition of null char:
>
>          a : character := character'val(0);
>          for a'size use 8;
>          b : boolean;
>          for b'address use a'address;
>          for b'size use 8;
>
>      begin
>          a := character'val(2#11111111#);
>
> and still got the exception on Gnat. Which is what I would
> expect (on Gnat).
>
> Peter

Sorry, I had made another change, too, and had forgot to mentioned it :-(. I
had initialized the variable b:

b : boolean := false;

which was not in your code.

Anders