> > Ada currently has to do this itself, precisely because -ftrapv doesn't > > work, so it's not the case that Ada "needs" it. > > Well no one "needs" anything in this sense, any interfaced is Turing > complete so there is *always* a work around deficiencies in the back > end. But right now, the "do this itself" is really horribly inefficient:
Clearly. My point was that Ada doesn't need a *broken* -ftrapv. So if there's no hope of fixing it, we might as well deprecate it.
