Re: Ariane 5 failure (Was: Size code Ada and C)

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>]

John McCabe a �crit dans le message <6nfp0v$dgl@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>...
>dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
>>... it would be nice to have a clear answer.
>
>It certainly would.
>
>>Certainly my impression was that it would have been FAR less harmful
>>to simply get the wrong result in this code, than to generate the
>>improperly handled exception.
>
>Given the application and the circumstances, I can't see that it would
>really have made any difference in the end. As the information produced
>by the SRI was (inappropriately as it turned out) being used to direct
>the launcher, the chances are that getting a wrong answer would simply
>have resulted in the vehicle being directed in another wrong direction
>from which there would likely have been no possible means of recovery.
>

Not at all ! The information produced by the SRI was *discarded* (since it
should not even have been running at that point). However, when it failed,
the core dump was directed to the data bus...
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