From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/10/28
Date: 1998-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <717bta$ade$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F1I5z2.9K8.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
In article <F1I5z2.9K8.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com>,
stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) wrote:
> : In article <7125a8$e7u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> : dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> : > Don't be quite so hard on uSoft. ObjectAda 7.1.1 had this exact same
problem.
>
> That surprises me, because the package Calendar we have shipped with
> our Ada 95 front end since the beginning has the following leap_year
> function (original comment included):
(snip)
> That's good. Maybe there is an interesting story here (or perhaps
> this whole thing is apocryphal?).
Well, no. It has been verified on the Intel-ObjectAda mailing list by Dave
Wood. I may have phrased it vaguely because I don't trust my memory on the
particulars, and I was too lazy to look it up in my mailing-list archives.
But since you are interested...
I don't know if there is a public archive of the Intel-ObjectAda mailing list,
but if there is, the thread name is "Intel-OA:Leap Day Error". First post was
9/16/98. The following is my "book report" on the thread:
The problem was *not* in calendar, but internal to ObjectAda compiled
applications, reportedly even a "Hello World" program. Programs run on any
Feb 29 GMT may (will?) have the problem. The reported symptom is the program
bombing immediately with "ERROR: reentering exception manager for the 10th
time, EIP=00000000".
Also, while I'm correcting myself, it is *not* fixed in the current version
of ObjectAda. It looks like it should be in the *next* version, which of
course is due RSN. :-) Aonix made some rumblings about making a patch
available in the meantime, but I have seen nothing further on the subject.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-19 0:00 Y2K Issues John J Cupak Jr
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
[not found] ` <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com>
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Mark Bennison
1998-10-22 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` John Herro
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Y2K Issues (well, not really...) Dave Wood
1998-10-28 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Y2K Issues Dave Wood
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Joel Seidman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Y2K Issues - Warning Off-Topic Al Christians
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Y2K Issues dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-29 0:00 ` system
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-11-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-07 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-08 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-29 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-02 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1998-10-23 0:00 Condic, Marin D.
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