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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,c615e41a65104004 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure (Was: Size code Ada and C) Date: 1998/07/02 Message-ID: <6ngegn$gui$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 368138553 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <35921271.E51E36DF@aonix.fr> <6mtiv0$9j3@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> <6n7jut$al0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6navqt$shc$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <359A53E2.41C6@lanl.gov> <6nfp0v$dgl@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: Adalog Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/adalog