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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7e8cebf09cf80560 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!noris.net!news.teledata-fn.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:01:31 +0100 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking werenotturned off? References: <4d80b140$0$43832$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4d814af0$0$43831$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4d81ea0b$0$6974$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Mar 2011 12:01:32 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: e7a24c83.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=j=E]I6`^eT;kUFX=Y?aLP;4IUKnc\616M64>:Lh>_cHTX3j=S^VB;n3XB@< X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19245 Date: 2011-03-17T12:01:32+01:00 List-Id: On 17.03.11 01:26, Simon Wright wrote: > "robin" writes: > >> But only if the error was hardware, which it wasn't. > > No, and it wasn't bloody software either!!! it was SYSTEM DESIGN!!! and > no amount of faffing about at the edges of software will ever fix that. > > I'm out of this conversation. Logic is open to more twisting by generalizing robin's rules: by assuming that a defective system that includes hardware can support a software error handler. Come on, let's have some more FUD from the many system engineers in the know, in particular the one's not building Ariane systems.