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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?
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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?