Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System?

[Preben Randhol <randhol+cla@pvv.org>]

Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com> wrote on 01/12/2004 (19:01) :
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> > In article <1780586.KJpDkK3SiU@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik
> > wrote:
> >>Maybe you want to brush up your C  and read "ISO/IEC 9899:1999 7.14". In C
> >>exceptions are called signal and in the case discussed a the "SIGFPE"
> >>would have been raised. Without a signal handler the programm would have
> >>died.
>  
> > Ok now I'm even more confused. Could somebody please explain why a C
> > program would have worked even with the HW exception? Wasn't that the
> > argument? That C would work and Ada would fail?
> 
> Simson Garfinkel (http://www.klein.com/dvk/publications/FlyingLinux.pdf)
> thinks that C would have worked but most of us here at comp.lang.ada thing
> that C would have failed as well.

OK Then I'm not confused anymore as I think the same :-)