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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5412c98a3943e746 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.235.4 with SMTP id ui4mr31379pbc.3.1331209640152; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:27:20 -0800 (PST) Path: h9ni2350pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Verified compilers? Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:27:19 +0100 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <5842uv7qnw4x.1n3tw50p35nev$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <15276255.3865.1331124143041.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbze11> <87d38nv4zf.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <1akg43pmlpmk0.1h690opfybkew$.dlg@40tude.net> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: FbOMkhMtVLVmu7IwBnt1tw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-03-08T13:27:19+01:00 List-Id: On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:23:53 +0000, Simon Wright wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > >>> Oh. And who verifies that the silicon is correct? >> >> Well, that is much simpler. Since silicon is a physical device >> statistical models work pretty well there. > > You can probably tell if the silicon has become broken. It's harder to > tell whether the silicon has a design error. Yes, but that is no different from software errors. What I meant was hardware faults. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de