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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
> As I understand CodePeer, it is basically a weakest-precondition
> generator.  You point it at a subprogram and it will give you the
> weakest precondition on parameters and globals that ensures that there
> will be no run-time error in the subprogram.

Aha, I guess that tells you what contracts to write, so then maybe you
can then back up a level to the callers and do something similar to
ensure the contracts are fulfilled, etc.  It sounds pretty cool, but
apparently it's a proprietary product, not something I can try out
myself.  Thanks though.