From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac9405996d0dcb7f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!news0.de.colt.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System? Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:53:53 +0100 Organization: None Message-ID: <1349633.NkJ9vty95P@linux1.krischik.com> References: <20619edc.0411251028.3e249bf3@posting.google.com> <3193657.BGZLZqeFdM@linux1.krischik.com> <1780586.KJpDkK3SiU@linux1.krischik.com> Reply-To: martin@krischik.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1101927388 02 3531 6i65XSvORMTQQEG 041201 18:56:28 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: GWaRC+ZH8e8bNMEmzUKz7nKQZaPkxtWVpPa3dwFKoRrcw57MOONqs6 User-Agent: KNode/0.8.0 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6697 Date: 2004-12-01T19:53:53+01:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > In article <1780586.KJpDkK3SiU@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik > wrote: >>Maybe you want to brush up your C and read "ISO/IEC 9899:1999 7.14". In C >>exceptions are called signal and in the case discussed a the "SIGFPE" >>would have been raised. Without a signal handler the programm would have >>died. > Ok now I'm even more confused. Could somebody please explain why a C > program would have worked even with the HW exception? Wasn't that the > argument? That C would work and Ada would fail? Simson Garfinkel (http://www.klein.com/dvk/publications/FlyingLinux.pdf) thinks that C would have worked but most of us here at comp.lang.ada thing that C would have failed as well. With Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://www.ada.krischik.com