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,a88e582de42cdc9b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bug in Ada (SuSe 10.2) ? References: <0_mdna0iHpIsCifaRVnzvQA@telenor.com> <47ba9867$0$21892$4f793bc4@news.tdc.fi> <3a281192-2744-4110-9fc1-90c155c9436b@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <48277611-402f-4622-be05-6edddf6dd56a@o10g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <0E3vj.42830$yE1.34790@attbi_s21> In-Reply-To: <0E3vj.42830$yE1.34790@attbi_s21> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1203554142 12.201.97.213 (Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:35:42 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:35:42 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:35:42 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19931 Date: 2008-02-21T00:35:42+00:00 List-Id: 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 15