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: 103376,7e8cebf09cf80560 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.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 would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were not turned off? Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:13:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: <82d3lsvqw7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87ipvk6vva.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <87y64ac5fi.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net yTVYDHSxf/bYs5+tv0ki/QT28iUakWbEtkZHLR+Vo2VCq+gWSd Cancel-Lock: sha1:cmDWqLVvC0yy3zhNbp9DEZHKeTc= User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19306 Date: 2011-03-20T21:13:52+01:00 List-Id: Florian Weimer wrote: > * Vinzent Hoefler: > >> Florian Weimer wrote: >> >>> It's odd that after all those years, little hard data is available on >>> the defect. The published report uses terminology which is a slightly >>> bit off in the Ada context, so it led only to further speculation. >> [...] > > "Operand Error" is not the only odd thing. "Protected" operations > which are subject to exception handling are used in Lisp (and, based > on that, Lua). And I think we wouldn't call an expression an > "instruction", either. Without the explicit reference to Ada, I > wouldn't think that this paragraph describes something related to an > Ada program. That's why I think it uses odd language. Ok, yes, my impression is that they simply talk about the the code at processor level. Vinzent. -- A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors. -- Waldi Ravens