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From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
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Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System?
Date: 24 Nov 2004 06:39:37 -0800
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> I recommend that Ada advocates with high blood pressure not read page 21 of
> the PDF, especially the last line. :-)

Yeah.  First he points out correctly that "Program halt is
_specified_", then he assumes that in C such a halt (based on a
language-independent FP hardware trap, BTW) would not have been
specified.  I guess they would just have put a RET in that trap vector
if the program had been written in C.