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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ammo-zilla
Date: 1999/11/02
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In article <wcck8o0yh5x.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
>  Bugs in the GC itself have exactly the same sort
> of nasty consequences we're talking about.

Absolutely! And that's what's scary! These bugs in the GC itself
are among the most horrible bugs I have ever tackled (the one
exception being subtle hardware design errors). The idea that
an Ada user with little awareness of what is going on at a low
level can create bugs of comparable scariness by casual
incorrect use of unchecked conversion seems unacceptably
risky to me.


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