eliminating array bounds checking overhead

Hello


I wish to perform an array lookup of the form:


if (i > lo && i < hi)
          printf("%d", A[i]);
else
          printf("index out of bounds");


The above code is executed several times. The probability that 'i' is
between 'lo' and 'hi' is VERY high and I want to eliminate the
overhead of the 2 less-than tests. Does any language or any machine
provide some mechanism to:


1. index an array without checking its bounds
2. throw an exception if the index was actually out of range
3. allow the programmer to catch and handle the exception rather than
      terminate the program


Thanks in advance.


-- Mayur

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