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Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Fixed.Count raises Storage_Error
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On 01.07.16 14:17, rieachus@comcast.net wrote:
> The better way is just to run the loop in a 64-bit register if that is an option.;-)

GNAT's implementation of containers (as started by Matt Heaney)
had the index subtypes have just one more value than elements
that could be stored. Maybe that's another sign of the multi-
paradigm language Ada ;-)