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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2cb1f0b6d642e1dc X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.mv.net!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Pascal Calling Convention Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:56:54 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <9b04626e-567d-408c-aab3-39b964b3ffd6@l2g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <87y641vabt.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <878vw0msbm.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1301245014 31290 192.74.137.71 (27 Mar 2011 16:56:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:56:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e3IDYouBTEQ0240dKfpnjCmXqFc= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18501 Date: 2011-03-27T12:56:54-04:00 List-Id: Florian Weimer writes: > It's just when I say something is "undefined", it's not clear in what > category it is. That's why I think the label is confusing. OK, I see what you mean. Yes, it is a little confusing. But many programmers have a lot of trouble understanding the concept itself, no matter what it's called. People learn to program by experiment. By experiment, you can learn that signed integer arithmetic in C wraps around. But that's wrong. - Bob