From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System?
Date: 27 Nov 2004 11:41:39 -0800
Date: 2004-11-27T11:41:39-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20619edc.0411271141.41ab4828@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.129.1101514556.10401.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote in message news:<mailman.129.1101514556.10401.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>...
> Mike Silva wrote:
> > Even accepting your assertion that your hypothesis has not been
> > disproven, what conclusion do you draw? That deliberately ignoring
> > out-of-range data (not throwing it away, just ignoring it) will
> > generally lead to safer systems than dealing with out-of-range data in
> > some pre-determined way that may not always be the right choice
> > (especially if the system is mis-used in a manner so that out-of-range
> > data is suddenly legal)?
> >
> > What, again, is your conclusion?
>
> I do not draw a general conclusion. I merely point out that it is
> essential in this particular case to elicit the results of catching vs.
> not catching the exception, and in that context of using an
> "exceptional" language vs. an exceptionless one.
But the exception was generated by the hardware. A non-maskable
exception handler was vectored to. What would that exception handler
have done differently if an exceptionless language had been used?
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2004-11-22 11:44 Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System? Preben Randhol
2004-11-22 13:23 ` Simon Clubley
2004-11-22 22:36 ` Brian May
2004-11-22 23:07 ` Ed Falis
2004-11-22 23:29 ` David Botton
2004-11-23 4:11 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-11-23 9:24 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-25 18:28 ` Mike Silva
2004-11-25 20:15 ` David Botton
2004-11-26 3:11 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-11-26 10:11 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-11-26 11:51 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-26 12:32 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-11-26 13:40 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-11-26 13:54 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-26 22:22 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-11-27 0:24 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-29 1:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-04 18:58 ` Enrique Laso Leon
2004-12-05 1:29 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-12-05 13:50 ` Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control Larry Kilgallen
2004-12-06 13:20 ` Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System? Simon Clubley
[not found] ` <oSFxff11_F@VB1162.spb.edu>
2004-11-26 11:40 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-26 12:21 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-11-26 13:00 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-11-26 19:25 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-26 19:50 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-26 22:58 ` Simon Wright
2004-11-27 20:24 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-29 1:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-11-29 20:06 ` Preben Randhol
2004-11-26 20:58 ` Mike Silva
2004-11-27 0:06 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-27 0:55 ` Rod Haper
2004-11-27 1:31 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-27 8:07 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-27 9:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-27 9:51 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-27 13:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-29 20:13 ` Preben Randhol
2004-11-27 20:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-27 7:59 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-27 8:24 ` Pascal Obry
2004-11-27 19:36 ` Mike Silva
2004-11-26 21:09 ` Mike Silva
2004-11-27 0:15 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-27 19:41 ` Mike Silva [this message]
2004-11-27 7:47 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-29 20:04 ` Preben Randhol
2004-11-30 3:11 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-11-30 15:20 ` Mike Silva
2004-12-01 2:51 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-11-30 13:24 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-30 17:28 ` Preben Randhol
2004-12-01 9:27 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-01 16:59 ` Preben Randhol
2004-12-01 18:53 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-02 21:07 ` Preben Randhol
2004-12-05 6:52 ` Brian May
2004-11-23 12:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-11-23 10:35 ` Robert Kaiser
2004-11-23 12:36 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-23 21:16 ` Simon Wright
2004-11-23 22:09 ` Brian May
2004-11-24 6:07 ` Simon Wright
2004-11-24 14:39 ` Mike Silva
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2004-11-29 6:33 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
2004-11-29 6:45 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
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