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: 103376,7e8cebf09cf80560 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!216.196.110.146.MISMATCH!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.telenor.com!news.telenor.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:24:24 -0500 From: Leif Roar Moldskred Subject: Re: How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking werenotturned off? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <4d80b140$0$43832$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4d81491c$0$43833$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20100522 ("Lochruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.35-27-generic-pae (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:24:24 -0500 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-acPkStEwsk+ovqNmcPUyIjXPzjRR1bnAgQJdJIpnW/n86fpttZHfIhceKTuJPyOnDKzgVwmj8ZsYfT7!jhFNL52MvXghSzlwqpiWq1EjWgv143CAVXdwSrRHRMIywLw6r9L9LXjcX/8AtJbDIL4nAgA/hbr6!sC3+Y9o9 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@telenor.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: news-abuse@telenor.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1664 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19315 Date: 2011-03-21T08:24:24-05:00 List-Id: robin wrote: > Let me repeat: The major blunder made was in treating > a programming error as a hardware error. Uh... how do you suggest to, automatically, at runtime, tell the difference between hardware errors and programming errors? And how on Earth is strapping a piece of kit onto the _wrong type of engine_ not a hardware error? -- Leif Roar Moldskred