Re: GNAT 3.14 NEW FEATURES LIST Current as of May 30th, 2001

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3B3C86C7.6C780F67@easystreet.com>, Al Christians says...
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>This shows
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>> NF-314-7910-004 Uniform behavior for Slice subprograms
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>> In packages Ada.Strings.Bounded/Ada.Strings.Unbounded, the Slice 
>> function now returns with the bounds of the slice expressions, 
>> rather than with a lower bound of 1.This was discussed in the ISO
>> WG9 ARG, and it was agreed that this was the preferable approach. This > change also improves the efficiency of these two functions.
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>Will that break much code written otherwise?

Funny, that's the exact thought I had. However, the folks at ACT port a *lot* of
code themselves. I figure its not going to cause me more trouble that it causes
them. :-)

The only other compatability issue I saw in that (huge) list of chages was that
they are changing the default Linux thread library to native instead of FSU. I
can see arguments either way on that one.

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