From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Beginner's questions
Date: 1999/05/04
Date: 1999-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999May4.093747.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 372ED1C4.9A1AE1B2@frqnet.de
In article <372ED1C4.9A1AE1B2@frqnet.de>, Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@frqnet.de> writes:
> Not embedded systems but message handling systems for air traffic
> control which are designed for 99,995% availability. This means
> rebooting maximum once a year, not twice a day like with M$-Windows.
>
> So, does anybody know more details about unbounded_strings? How does it
> work? Does it recycle deallocated memory by 100%? If not I'll better
> stay away from it.
There are three levels of guarantee possible:
The language specification (reference manual) might require it.
The author of your compiler(s) might commit to it.
You might engage in testing for it.
Of these the first is probably least important other than as a nudge
to the second.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-02 0:00 Beginner's questions Marco Schmidt
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Marco Schmidt
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-03 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-04 0:00 ` czgrr
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-07 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-08 0:00 ` ak
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