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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Constraint checking of actuals passed to Attributes
Date: 2000/05/14
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:

> In the run-time model the AverStar compiler chooses, the compiler can
> prove validity quite often.  For example, an 'in' parameter of an
> integer type is always valid, because it was constraint checked at the
> call site.

Presumably this isn't true if the subprogram was exported ..