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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Nicolas Brunot Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/14 Message-ID: <3A10FA2A.E52FBF51@cadwin.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 693399371 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com> <3A0B68EF.A06B276D@ix.netcom.com> <3A0BB50B.96F77015@cadwin.com> <3A0BEAC7.5BC70E0@cadwin.com> <3A0BFA4A.5FA9D365@erols.com> <3A0C03BE.C3216454@cadwin.com> <8ujp12$3vk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0FCBAD.824095C6@cadwin.com> <8uos3l$q6h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8up1ht$upu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8uqhs1$88s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp1.proxad.net 974191178 212.27.55.254 (Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:39:38 MET) Organization: Guest of ProXad - France MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:39:38 MET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote : > A decent operating system cannot be crashed by "bad software", > that is elementary. Yes, I know that Windows users get used > to the contrary viewpoint (after all the navy concluded that > the infamous NT blue screen event was due to a faulty > application program!!!!) I remember a thread on comp.lang.ada a few weeks ago where someone was reporting a 5 lines procedure (syntaxically incorrect) where Gnat crashes with Storage_Error after several minutes. Your answer was more or less (no kidding ... !!!) "This is not a bug, the compiler is just complaining it is out of memory" No comment ... Well I just read a suggestion to end up this thread which seems quite a reasonable suggestion