From: "robin" <robin51@dodo.com.au>
Subject: Re: How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were notturned off?
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:34:28 +1100
Date: 2011-03-18T10:34:28+11:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d835402$0$43840$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4d820f84$0$6990$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net
Georg Bauhaus wrote in message <4d820f84$0$6990$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>...
>On 17.03.11 13:39, robin wrote:
>> Simon Wright wrote in message ...
>
>>> Even if they had installed an exception handler, the only
>>> proper response would have been to shutdown this node and hand over to
>>> the alternate;
>>
>> No, the exception handler could have done something sensible,
>> such as using the maximum integer value, thus allowing the trajectory to continue.
>
>Does the report say so?
No, that's just a suggestion of mine. However, see what the Report says:
"... the computers within the SRIs could have continued to provide
their best estimates of the required attitide information."
Provided that the two SRI computers remained switched on, the mission was safe.
Switching off "two still healthy critical units of equipment" guaranteed failure.
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2011-03-14 15:49 How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were not turned off? Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-03-14 16:17 ` KK6GM
2011-03-14 19:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-14 19:28 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-14 20:28 ` KK6GM
2011-03-15 4:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-15 4:53 ` Shark8
2011-03-14 18:29 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-16 10:41 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were notturned off? robin
2011-03-16 15:16 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-17 11:48 ` robin
2011-03-16 16:58 ` Martin Krischik
2011-03-16 23:39 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking werenotturned off? robin
2011-03-17 18:48 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-18 12:06 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2011-03-18 21:15 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were not turned off? robin
2011-03-20 10:42 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-20 17:06 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking werenotturned off? Martin Krischik
2011-03-20 17:11 ` Martin Krischik
2011-03-20 18:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-21 13:24 ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2011-03-20 13:07 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were notturned off? Florian Weimer
2011-03-20 17:00 ` Martin Krischik
2011-03-20 20:17 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-20 20:37 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-20 20:14 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-16 18:20 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-16 18:29 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-16 18:55 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-16 19:40 ` KK6GM
2011-03-16 20:52 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-16 21:02 ` KK6GM
2011-03-16 21:09 ` Shark8
2011-03-16 21:13 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-16 21:35 ` Shark8
2011-03-16 22:27 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-16 21:04 ` Shark8
2011-03-16 21:10 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-16 21:27 ` KK6GM
2011-03-16 21:31 ` Shark8
2011-03-16 22:32 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-18 21:14 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were not turned off? robin
2011-03-16 23:46 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking werenotturned off? robin
2011-03-17 0:26 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-17 11:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-17 11:04 ` robin
2011-03-17 13:36 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-03-18 21:13 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were not turned off? robin
2011-03-19 10:12 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-03-17 22:51 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking werenotturned off? Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-18 21:13 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were not turned off? robin
2011-03-20 10:42 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-15 6:28 ` Stephen Leake
2011-03-15 17:32 ` Keith Thompson
2011-03-15 17:40 ` KK6GM
2011-03-15 19:44 ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-15 19:12 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-15 19:45 ` KK6GM
2011-03-15 19:57 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-20 13:00 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-20 20:13 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-15 19:42 ` John B. Matthews
2011-03-17 11:44 ` robin
2011-03-17 18:37 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-17 23:04 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were notturned off? robin
2011-03-18 15:55 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-17 21:37 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were not turned off? Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-16 10:33 ` robin
2011-03-16 15:08 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-17 12:39 ` robin
2011-03-17 13:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-17 23:34 ` robin [this message]
2011-03-18 12:57 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were notturned off? Hyman Rosen
2011-03-18 16:49 ` KK6GM
2011-03-18 17:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-19 17:55 ` Keith Thompson
2011-03-20 18:39 ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-17 18:43 ` How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were not turned off? Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-17 20:58 ` Simon Wright
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