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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Fixed.Count raises Storage_Error
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:41:24 +0200
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On 27.06.16 10:29, Simon Wright wrote:
> 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.

This approach could lead to, at least, a statement of the
assumptions of the algorithm in question. Perhaps even
to a special case routine that doesn't make the "normal"
routine run unnecessarily slow by frequently testing
equality with Positive'Last.


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