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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug or feature?
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:42:55 -0400
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Laurent <daemon2@internet.lu> writes:

> This one I didn't see: 5*2_000_000_000 = 1_410_065_408
> So there is also an overflow. Didn't count the digits before. (Is there a way to add '_' to separate
> the thousands automatically in GPS?)

I don't know, but recent versions of gnatpp have that capability.

I don't like having to squint to tell the difference between
(say) "one million" and "ten million".  I wonder why most languages
don't support that feature -- it's trivial.

> Checked the Stack Overflow check (-gnato) ...

It's not "stack overflow" -- that has to do with overflowing the
call stack.  I think you also called it "buffer overflow", which
actually means array index out of bounds.  -gnato turns on checks for
"integer overflow".  I believe -gnato will be the default soon,
if it's not already.

- Bob