basic VRP min/max range overflow question

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Mon Jun 20 13:17:00 GMT 2005


Paul Schlie wrote:

> - yes, effectively I don't perceive any necessity for undefined, vs
> unspecified; as I don't perceive any necessity to give the compiler
> the freedom to treat generate an arbitrary program which may contain
> a potentially ambiguous specific and isolatable behavior.

OK, then you are definitely on a different planet when it comes to
designing languages of this class (C, Ada, PL/1, Pascal, ALgol etc).
Everyone of these language definitions sees a critical need for this
differentiation. It is indeed somewhat fundamental.



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