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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7d3cb5920e882220 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!newsfeed.utanet.at!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.hispeed.ch.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-Id: <1355376.ahPdGlRDJW@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: Contracted exceptions for Ada (was: Exceptions) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:11:13 +0100 References: <5947aa62-2547-4fbb-bc46-1111b4a0dcc9@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> <7m9wkymyi5h7.1235e72is9mp9.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@hispeed.ch Organization: hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.75.162.66 (84.75.162.66) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:00:21 +0100 X-Trace: 9e6dc475c1115f1ee07e723109 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18814 Date: 2007-12-09T16:11:13+01:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > (Maybe a wild guess, but this could save Ariane V. A program assumed > Constraint_Error exception free was recompiled for the hardware where that > was not the case.) My understanding is that the system was brought down by an unexpected hardware exception - i.E. one which the CPU's floating point unit generated. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Launch_history Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com