Re: if X in 1..35000 versus Boolean

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote in message news:<agpld4$niq17$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>...
> The size of the object code increased by 20 bytes, so it 
> evidently changed _something_.  I'll bet that it created 
> an anonymous enumeration type, and that some extra code 
> is describing/referencing that.

As more than one person has pointed out, there is no
enumeration type in sight (your understanding of enumeration types is
quite flawed, as shown by your
example, you might want to get hold of an online Ada
tutorial to learn about these matters).

As for the extra code you are adding a test, your original
only tests an upper bound so of course testing both bounds
takes more.

Though very little more with a decent compiler. If you really got 20
bytes more, then either you have a junk
compiler, or you are misusing the compiler you have (e.g.
running in -O0 mode with GNAT, which is of course ludicrous if you are
interested in reducing the amount of generated
code :-)