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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
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"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk> writes:

> In reality, one might well use ATC time-outs to protect vital code
> like this from being baulked. Furthermore, I suspect indicator code
> would in reality be very separate from emergency actions code
> (different tasks, or probably different devices).

I suspect that your ISA would choke on the idea of using ATC in
high-integrity software ..