https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88274

--- Comment #12 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> ---
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018, ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org wrote:

> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88274
> 
> --- Comment #11 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
> > It's the opposite, we need to hide TYPE_MIN/MAX_VALUE to preserve checks in
> > Ada, otherwise the optimizer happily removes them.
> 
> To be more explicit: in Ada, you can check at run time whether a value is 
> valid
> for its nominal subtype (i.e. you can check if it's within the range) so you
> cannot have the obvious TYPE_MIN/MAX_VALUE on this nominal subtype, otherwise
> these checks will be elided by VRP.

OK, so we don't have coverage for VRP optimizations on such types
from Ada.  That leaves us with -fstrict-enums, defaulted to off.

I seriously question the value of VRP trying to look at
TYPE_MIN/MAX_VALUE then.

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