From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Contracted exceptions for Ada
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:50:07 +0000
Date: 2007-12-11T20:50:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d4tdgdmo.fsf@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1vc7xfiouucfe.14549yzryw44i$.dlg@40tude.net
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:25:34 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:
>
>> The Ariane IV system engineers said to themselves, and probably in
>> the design documentation, "The maximum horizontal velocity is
>> X. Therefore the conversion to the fixed-point type _Whatever_
>> cannot overflow. Therefore we do not need to handle exceptions for
>> this conversion, so (given we are short of CPU power) we will not
>> do any extra processing to avoid exceptions."
>>
>> Not sure they would have recognised "contract" in that context.
>
> Yes, my premise was that the type of H_Input changed from Ariane IV
> to Ariane V. In this case translation of the conversion function
> H_Input_To_Whatever could refute the second "therefore" because X
> would not be the maximal possible value of H_Input anymore.
X was *never* the maximum possible value of H_Input!
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2007-12-06 15:00 Exceptions shaunpatterson
2007-12-06 21:24 ` Exceptions tmoran
2007-12-07 8:54 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-07 10:21 ` Exceptions Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-07 15:11 ` Exceptions shaunpatterson
2007-12-07 16:08 ` Exceptions Gautier
2007-12-07 18:56 ` Exceptions Simon Wright
2007-12-08 10:04 ` Exceptions Stephen Leake
2007-12-08 3:30 ` Exceptions Randy Brukardt
2007-12-08 10:09 ` Contracted exceptions for Ada (was: Exceptions) Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-09 10:22 ` Contracted exceptions for Ada Stephen Leake
2007-12-09 11:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-11 8:10 ` Stephen Leake
2007-12-11 10:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-09 15:11 ` Contracted exceptions for Ada (was: Exceptions) Martin Krischik
2007-12-09 17:36 ` Contracted exceptions for Ada Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-09 18:39 ` Simon Wright
2007-12-10 8:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-10 20:25 ` Simon Wright
2007-12-11 8:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-11 20:50 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2007-12-12 10:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-09 19:04 ` Martin Krischik
2007-12-10 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-09 22:09 ` Robert A Duff
2007-12-10 7:09 ` Stefan Lucks
2007-12-10 16:57 ` Robert A Duff
2007-12-11 1:53 ` Contracted exceptions for Ada (was: Exceptions) Randy Brukardt
2007-12-11 9:16 ` Contracted exceptions for Ada Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-12 0:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-12-08 12:26 ` Exceptions Peter C. Chapin
2007-12-08 14:01 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-08 18:01 ` Exceptions Peter C. Chapin
2007-12-09 10:06 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-09 12:40 ` Exceptions Peter C. Chapin
2007-12-09 14:31 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-09 16:38 ` Exceptions Peter C. Chapin
2007-12-10 8:31 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-09 21:56 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-09 10:24 ` Exceptions Stephen Leake
2007-12-09 12:46 ` Exceptions Peter C. Chapin
2007-12-09 21:39 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-09 22:13 ` Exceptions Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-11 8:07 ` Exceptions Stephen Leake
2007-12-11 20:28 ` Exceptions Simon Wright
2007-12-12 22:10 ` Exceptions Maciej Sobczak
2007-12-13 13:40 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-13 14:00 ` Exceptions Maciej Sobczak
2007-12-13 14:44 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-14 0:46 ` Exceptions Ray Blaak
2007-12-14 2:36 ` Exceptions Randy Brukardt
2007-12-14 6:21 ` Exceptions Ray Blaak
2007-12-14 12:40 ` Exceptions Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-14 17:29 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-14 19:32 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-15 5:29 ` Exceptions Ray Blaak
2007-12-13 19:29 ` Exceptions Randy Brukardt
2007-12-12 19:18 ` Exceptions Martin Krischik
2007-12-13 13:27 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-13 23:25 ` Exceptions Ray Blaak
2007-12-06 21:25 ` Exceptions Gautier
2007-12-07 4:29 ` Exceptions anon
2007-12-07 4:43 ` Exceptions, part 2 anon
2007-12-07 16:55 ` Exceptions Adam Beneschan
2007-12-07 18:59 ` Exceptions Simon Wright
2007-12-08 0:38 ` Exceptions Adam Beneschan
2007-12-09 21:45 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-09 22:40 ` Exceptions Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-10 8:22 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-10 9:20 ` Exceptions Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-10 9:30 ` Exceptions Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-10 10:56 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-11 2:18 ` Exceptions Randy Brukardt
2007-12-11 8:19 ` Exceptions Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-11 11:55 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-11 16:13 ` Exceptions Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-12 11:18 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-10 12:09 ` Exceptions Niklas Holsti
2007-12-10 13:08 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-10 20:02 ` Exceptions Niklas Holsti
2007-12-11 12:31 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-11 13:21 ` Exceptions Niklas Holsti
2007-12-12 0:01 ` Exceptions Randy Brukardt
2007-12-12 11:37 ` Exceptions Niklas Holsti
2007-12-12 13:14 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-12 14:37 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-13 19:20 ` Exceptions Randy Brukardt
2007-12-13 20:15 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-12 11:00 ` Exceptions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-11 2:12 ` Exceptions Randy Brukardt
2007-12-11 15:17 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-12 0:10 ` Exceptions Randy Brukardt
2007-12-13 19:58 ` Exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-12-14 0:53 ` Exceptions Ray Blaak
2007-12-14 2:48 ` Exceptions Randy Brukardt
2007-12-14 6:33 ` Exceptions Ray Blaak
2007-12-08 10:03 ` Exceptions Stephen Leake
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