PR 23046. Folding predicates involving TYPE_MAX_VALUE/TYPE_MIN_VALUE (Ada RFC)

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Fri Aug 12 17:57:00 GMT 2005


* Laurent GUERBY:

> An implementation model could be for the front-end to generate for each
> family of scalar type T a function Base_Type_Internal_Valid (X, Min,
> Max : in Base_Type_Of_T) return Boolean, generate a call to it at all
> 'Valid uses and then tell the compiler to never do any inlining at all
> on such generated function.

I think you could have a similar effect with an empty machine code
insertion.  But it's still a kludge.



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