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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:47:56 GMT, Robert A Duff wrote:
> > But replace "x + y < 4" with something that fails in some other way (not
> > overflow).  Then Hyman Rosen's point is correct: the compiler has to
>                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^
> But as I see it is not relevant if the compiler has to do this, the
> issue is if the machine code has to do this or not.

OK.  The compiler has to generate machine code that has to ....

- Bob