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=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_LOCAL_HEX, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9d5fc258548b22a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address? Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:03:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <67063a5b-f588-45ea-bf22-ca4ba0196ee6@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <31c357bd-c8dc-4583-a454-86d9c579e5f4@m13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <05a3673e-fb97-449c-94ed-1139eb085c32@x1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <4d4c232a$0$28967$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4D4D6506.50909@obry.net> <4d50095f$0$22393$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d6d56c4$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <16u9ka51wbukr$.1fj2sb73j9rv6.dlg@40tude.net> <4d6d627b$0$11509$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <74986d0a-0d5b-4396-8c77-adff72e870a2@d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <4d6eafc7$0$17913$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net xpR2S73icGm7DLd/NW230QjzYS37Prv/vbq4bpeyfu0YhlDNl6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xFlqhbJFAxFjnd7uxcCcT80gbDo= User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17742 Date: 2011-03-02T22:03:25+01:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > On 3/2/2011 3:34 PM, KK6GM wrote: >> Extrapolating the 2002 NIST study on the cost of software defects, the >> whole world "gets along" with a loss of about $350 billion every year >> due to buggy software. By way of comparison, the cost of the entire >> Apollo space program, in today's dollars, was about half that amount. > > Yeah, you know? I'll bet those numbers are like the amount of > money "lost due to piracy". Actually, no. While "lost due to piracy" are pure virtual numbers, because they are based on something that could have happened, the cost of recalls, bug-fix cycles etc. are quite real and measurable. Because they did happen. Vinzent. -- A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors. -- Waldi Ravens