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Subject: Re: Newbie question
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:25:33 -0500
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"Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
>
>> -gnato tells GNAT to check for constraint errors. It is left off by
>> default for historical reasons...
>
> Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that -gnato checks for constraint
> errors due specifically to numeric overflows? 

Yes.

> Even without -gnato violation of subtype constraints (for example)
> are still checked.
>
> Peter

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