From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure - Summary Report
Date: 1996/07/25
Date: 1996-07-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31F7A9DB.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31F69073.1913@lfwc.lockheed.com
Byron B. Kauffman wrote:
>
> the Ada mandate? Of course, the C crowd will want to blame this
> scenario on Ada, but it appears to me that the same results would have
> occurred no matter what language the original software was written in.
Not true. In C, the operation that performed the type conversion (cast),
would have corrupted nearby memory locations and continued running with
faulty data (or possibly instructions). The resulting error would have
occured at a seemingly random place with seemingly random frequency, and
the commision studying the failure would never have been able to isolate
it.
--
T.E.D.
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1996-07-24 0:00 ` Ariane 5 Failure - Summary Report Ken Garlington
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Byron B. Kauffman
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Stephen D. House
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison [this message]
1996-07-25 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-26 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-07-26 0:00 ` OS2 User
1996-07-25 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Con Bradley
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-26 0:00 ` P. Cnudde VH14 (8218)
1996-08-01 0:00 ` root
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