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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no 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 Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!a11g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Shark8 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were notturned off? Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <4d80b140$0$43832$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4d810172$0$4954$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.28.172.140 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300309466 17821 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2011 21:04:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a11g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.28.172.140; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18258 Date: 2011-03-16T14:04:26-07:00 List-Id: On Mar 16, 1:40=A0pm, KK6GM wrote: > If you have determined via thorough analysis that the variable in > question can only _ever_ have a valid range of e.g. -20000 to 20000, > and it goes to 33000, what _is_ the right action? IMO, raise PROGRAM_ERROR and cease execution. (or similar) "Ignore it and continue operation" is, in a word, WRONG.