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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,593bd03cd5bc0b74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!news.addix.net!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Bode Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Medical instruments do use Ada Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 20:04:29 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p57b60cad.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: online.de 1178129069 22867 87.182.12.173 (2 May 2007 18:04:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:04:29 +0000 (UTC) X-message-flag: IMPORTANT MESSAGE -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!! X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .rtf, .ps, .pdf - *NO* MS Office files User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15469 Date: 2007-05-02T20:04:29+02:00 List-Id: Colin Paul Gloster writes: > The person who claimed this said that for his own work > (business-critical but not life-critical and not medical), he > similarly does not bother to design his software so well that it > will not crash frequently, and that he tries to have data structures > in such a way that they are resilient to corruption from crashes." Maybe one could use crashing as a regular operation mode of the program. Instead of raising an exception, write some data to the registry, then dereference a null pointer and restart. -- No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. He simply follows the eleventh commandment. -- R.A. Heinlein