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: a07f3367d7,4a79d3a6d273074a X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.216.233.196 with SMTP id p46mr296741weq.0.1348233638449; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Path: q11ni9092558wiw.1!nntp.google.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!216.40.29.245.MISMATCH!novia!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ganssle plugs Ada Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:48:10 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <12caf09a-13b4-4d19-be4a-9d2d9b3f1f10@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a9272c9c584810f74e3f95ce46cbeceb"; logging-data="32422"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/SVYRCmP89q89awLUKds6XIJhNbimAgMg=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SIl3Kh8/ZDb0jK0wdILCQS4LK0E= sha1:43Q5Drs5Ov66hEtn5ys3TTM3GnA= Content-Type: text/plain Date: 2012-09-14T22:48:10+01:00 List-Id: Shark8 writes: >> 5. Incorrect hardware handling. For example using edge triggered >> instead of level triggered interrupts resulting in peripherals going >> to sleep and product failure. > > -- I've not done a lot of low-level work... but I'm under the > impression that Ada's interrupt handlers work perfectly fine. As noted, the edge/level interrupt triggering is a hardware issue (normally; could be configuration done by software), so no software features are going to prevent the wrong choice.