From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2a34b7ad6c6a0774 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Yannick_Duch=EAne_=28Hibou57=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Efficiency of code generated by Ada compilers Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:43:03 +0200 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <1jn1a4o.1dfllwo1uin3imN%csampson@inetworld.net> <1jn36d6.se2f0g1edjjnyN%csampson@inetworld.net> <61f149b9-00ff-40cd-9698-01e69fdc5c0f@v15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <12ce49e6-169e-4e35-b82f-27de0d9b1ceb@t20g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: M2yP1Cx/h9YxW/Ct5b534Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.60 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13253 Date: 2010-08-14T00:43:03+02:00 List-Id: > When you are talking about hardware level checks, are you talking about > check for null address divide par zero and so on or something else ? I > have never heard about a machine with a level array type and an hardware > check for array access index. Would be interesting if you could be more > explicit about these hardware checks. Well, I know about some CPU with low level capabilities to check for read access to unassigned/not-initialized memory location.