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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@acm.nospam.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in Ada (SuSe 10.2) ?
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:35:42 GMT
Date: 2008-02-21T00:35:42+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yH3vj.42565$9j6.42446@attbi_s22> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E3vj.42830$yE1.34790@attbi_s21>

Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> 
> I think there's quite a bit of difference between having (almost) all 
> programs deliberately fail to implement the Ada semantics, and having an 
> unintentional error in a compiler. The latter is trying to implement 
> Ada; the former isn't. With its default options, GNAT is much more like 
> the former than the latter.

More to the point, perhaps, is that it's interesting to see a posting here about 
the latter, but the 1_000th posting asking why GNAT doesn't catch integer 
overflow isn't.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"English bed-wetting types."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19  8:47 Bug in Ada (SuSe 10.2) ? Reinert Korsnes
2008-02-19  9:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-02-19  9:53   ` Reinert Korsnes
2008-02-19 11:21     ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-02-20 12:41       ` Reinert Korsnes
2008-02-20 16:50         ` Adam Beneschan
2008-02-20 18:31           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-02-20 23:10             ` Adam Beneschan
2008-02-20 23:22             ` Adam Beneschan
2008-02-21  0:31               ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-21  8:56                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-02-21  9:08                   ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-02-21  9:27                     ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-02-21  9:46                       ` billjones6789
2008-02-21 12:27                         ` Access type (mis)use (Was: Bug in Ada (SuSe 10.2) ?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2008-02-21 19:40                           ` Bob Klungle
2008-02-21 21:25                             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-02-21 21:57                             ` Vadim Godunko
2008-02-21 22:32                         ` Bug in Ada (SuSe 10.2) ? Randy Brukardt
2008-02-22 16:10                           ` billjones6789
2008-02-22 19:21                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-02-22 21:29                               ` Vadim Godunko
2008-02-22 21:39                                 ` Robert A Duff
2008-02-23 10:16                               ` billjones6789
2008-02-22 19:52                             ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-23 10:36                               ` billjones6789
2008-02-26  0:32                                 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-26 16:46                                   ` billjones6789
2008-02-26 20:53                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-27  1:05                                     ` Robert A Duff
2008-02-27 10:06                                       ` billjones6789
2008-02-27 17:49                                         ` Robert A Duff
2008-02-28  0:30                                           ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-28 15:33                                             ` Robert A Duff
2008-03-06 17:46                                             ` Adam Beneschan
2008-02-21  0:31               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-02-21  0:35                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2008-03-06 11:55                   ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-02-21  0:55               ` tmoran
2008-02-21  8:08                 ` billjones6789
2008-02-21  9:11                 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-02-21 23:01                   ` Randy Brukardt
2008-02-22 16:43                 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-02-22  9:06               ` Stephen Leake
2008-02-22  5:40       ` Gautier
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