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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7d5642dc1158588b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ravenscar - program termination References: <87zm81txs1.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <8yLvh.247023$aJ.138065@attbi_s21> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1170179332 12.201.97.213 (Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:48:52 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:48:52 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:48:52 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8723 Date: 2007-01-30T17:48:52+00:00 List-Id: Markus E Leypold wrote: > > Well, it terminates. What does termination mean in a "high integrity" > embedded system -- does the hardware go away? :-). I think if someone > wants to shutdown such a system the thing happening is, that every > task goes into idle mode and the last thing a controlling task does, > is, to display (or otherwise indicate) "you may now shut off power, > the countdown to eject the warp core has been stopped" or something > like this. Termination in an embedded system often means the processor no longer has power :) -- Jeff Carter "I soiled my armor, I was so scared." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 71