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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f039470e8f537101 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-22 12:03:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news.cc.utah.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bobby D. Bryant" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane5 FAQ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:00:15 -0600 Organization: dis- Message-ID: References: <1058799152.775376@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1058810510.375902@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1058813341.841940@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1058816605.566685@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <20619edc.0307221029.47fe6d31@posting.google.com> <1058899826.878512@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-40-16.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 1058900460 25943 128.83.111.192 (22 Jul 2003 19:01:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:01:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40663 Date: 2003-07-22T13:00:15-06:00 List-Id: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:50:26 -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote: > The software worked as specified when the input was limited to > the specified range. Out of that range, the software worked in a > random, undefined manner. No, the software was designed to spill debug data in those circumstances. That data may have been garbage as far as the Ariane 5 was concerned, but it was the intended behavior for the part. The problem wasn't the software; the problem was an attempt to use the software in an application that it wasn't spec'd to work for. -- Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas