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From: randhol@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no (Preben Randhol)
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Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:04:19 +0000 (UTC)
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In article  Marius Amado Alves wrote:
>No. This whole talk of hardware-generated exception sounds like "FUD". 
>Namely, it sounds like your trying to blame the hardware. The cause was 
>a SOFTWARE enginering error. Yes, a BUG. In the Ada software. And 
>because it's connected to exceptions, the hypothesis that if the thing 
>had been done in an exceptionless language like C the effect might have 
>been different. And yes, maybe less bad. And none of the explanations 
>I've seen so far (here, in books, and in the Internet) disprove this 
>hypothesis.

I'm confused. Didn't they turn off all exceptions checks?

Preben