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From: Reivilo Snuved <odevuns@iname.JUNK.com>
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:

> In the second place the "Operand Error" they refer to is *not* a standard
> Ada exception and I and others familiar with the report don't know where the
> writers extracted this from. However, given the reference to a 64 bit Float
> converting to a 16 bit integer and having some familiarity with the
> Mil-Std-1750a microprocessor that was the target machine ...

Bzzt. The target machine for Ariane-5 was (and still is) a 68k-series.
Operand Error referred to a FPU exception.

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