From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada News Brief
Date: 1996/10/15
Date: 1996-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.845433675@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Oct15.160047.1@eisner
Larry said
"Whose bug it is in cases like this depends on whether it was a documented
or undocumented hardware restriction. I have run into some nasty problems
caused by failure to follow documented hardware restrictions, even by folk
who were involved in writing those restrictions ! Even for hardware
manufacturers who embrace GNAT as the solution ...."
You misunderstood my example, this was a special home built (by the
customer) bit of memory mapped hardware that happened to barf on byte
addressing. The Ada program deliberately or accidentally counted on
a particular sequence of code being generated that was consistent with
the particular requirements of this board.
No question whose bug this was - the customer's! Nevertheless operationally
it was a porting problem!
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-04 0:00 Ada News Brief Reuse News
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Software Engineering News
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Neil O'Brien
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` David Emery
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1996-09-20 0:00 Becca Norton
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