[Ada] Reject numeric literals with too big exponents

While the compiler can compute numeric literal with arbitrary large
exponents, this may take ages and is most likely a typo. Better emit an
error when we certainly expect it to take long. The chosen threshold
takes about 100s to compute.

gcc/ada/

	* scng.adb (Nlit): Error on big UI_Scale.
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Etienne Servais 2022-01-18 15:45:40 +01:00 committed by Pierre-Marie de Rodat
parent d979a676fd
commit 3ad8cac470

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@ -772,6 +772,15 @@ package body Scng is
if UI_Scale = 0 then
Int_Literal_Value := UI_Num_Value;
-- When the exponent is large, computing is expected to take a
-- rather unreasonable time. We generate an error so that it
-- does not appear that the compiler has gotten stuck. Such a
-- large exponent is most likely a typo anyway.
elsif UI_Scale >= 800_000 then
Error_Msg_SC ("exponent too large");
Int_Literal_Value := No_Uint;
-- Avoid doing possibly expensive calculations in cases like
-- parsing 163E800_000# when semantics will not be done anyway.
-- This is especially useful when parsing garbled input.