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: 103376,892f841b317b302e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsr1.ipcore.viaginterkom.de!news-peer1!btnet-feed3!news-peer0-test!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Format string bugs & race conditions Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <1c2f5137.0410160128.7ef88436@posting.google.com> <1097990937.246146@yasure> NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-152-56-142.range81-152.btcentralplus.com X-Trace: titan.btinternet.com 1098004445 17137 81.152.56.142 (17 Oct 2004 09:14:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:14:05 +0000 (UTC) X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5349 Date: 2004-10-17T09:14:05+00:00 List-Id: "Benjamin Ketcham" wrote in message news:1097990937.246146@yasure... > Jeffrey Carter wrote: >> Hans Van den Eynden wrote: >> >>> In C/C++ there is a major problem with "Format string bugs" & "race >>> conditions". Can this appear in ada??? and if soo how?? >> >> How can you have race conditions in a sequential language? > > Easy: have more than one process/thread accessing the same resources. I think you missed Jeff's (non-too subtle) dig at C/C++ as they don't support concurrency /within/ the language standard (unlike Ada) but instead rely on libraries, possibly competing libraries at that. Cheers -- Martin