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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac9405996d0dcb7f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.agarik.com!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System? Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:07:35 +0100 Organization: PVV Sender: Preben Randhol Message-ID: References: <20619edc.0411251028.3e249bf3@posting.google.com> <3193657.BGZLZqeFdM@linux1.krischik.com> <1780586.KJpDkK3SiU@linux1.krischik.com> <1349633.NkJ9vty95P@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1102111539 50422 212.85.156.195 (3 Dec 2004 22:05:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:05:39 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1349633.NkJ9vty95P@linux1.krischik.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6744 Date: 2004-12-02T22:07:35+01:00 Martin Krischik 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 :-)