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Peter Amey <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:13:27 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Apurva Shukla [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 08 July 2003 06:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: The array range problem
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> I am a starter in Ada and need certain help ragrding arrays. 
> i have got
> a code in which there is a line which says:
> 
> a(11..10) := b(1..0);
> 
> here the arrays a and b are of the same type( i have tried 
> using integer )
> and the range is (1..10)
> So my questions are:
> 1. Why is ada compiler not noticing that the array range has been
> voilated by saying a(11..10)
> 2. And this progarm runs also but the values are not 
> providing any clue
> of what ada compiler does exactly.
> 

With the caveat that I keep forgetting the bits of Ada that aren't SPARK here's one possible answer:

11..10 and 1..0 are both null slices (i.e. statically known to be empty).  Your code therefore assigns a null slice to a null slice and no out-of-bounds array accesses occur so no error occurs. 

I would hope that a(10..11) := b(0..1); would raise a rich crop of constraint errors.

regards

Peter


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