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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9d5fc258548b22a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!postbox2.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:44:25 -0500 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address? References: <67063a5b-f588-45ea-bf22-ca4ba0196ee6@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <31c357bd-c8dc-4583-a454-86d9c579e5f4@m13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <05a3673e-fb97-449c-94ed-1139eb085c32@x1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <4d4c232a$0$28967$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4D4D6506.50909@obry.net> <4d50095f$0$22393$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d6d56c4$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <16u9ka51wbukr$.1fj2sb73j9rv6.dlg@40tude.net> <4d6d627b$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <74986d0a-0d5b-4396-8c77-adff72e870a2@d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <4d6eafc7$0$17913$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <4d6eb309$0$17913$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <4d6ed212$0$17960$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <4d7008e6$0$17918$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4d700bba$0$17959$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.186.190.52 X-Trace: 1299188667 postbox2.readnews.com 17959 198.186.190.52:35956 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17786 Date: 2011-03-03T16:44:25-05:00 List-Id: On 3/3/2011 4:39 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > You mean fancy tools like PC-Lint, Polyspace, VectorCAST? Sure. The best one of all was Purify by Pure Software, which was great until IBM got a hold of it. > Funny thing about bugs is that you don't know them in > advance, so anything here is just based on statistics here. And > we know, that statistics is just another way to lie to people. Yep. As JP Rosen said in The Ada Paradox(es), even if you have rigorous research on the benefits of Ada, no one will believe it.