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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to build an Ada cross-compiler for an 8-bit
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"Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> Which is a consequence of good design. How many times has it caught an
> exception generated by a runtime check? I would class those as "bugs",
> even if they don't cause lots of downtime.

Many times, tracable to 4 or 5 actual bugs (all fixed now). The point is
that even bugs don't cause the program to fail or (worse) cause a security
hole. Testing can never prove the absense of bugs; unless you're using
SPARK, you have to assume there are still some in there.

                   Randy.