Re: Thought this was interesting

["AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz>]

"Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen" <oleh@vlinux.voxelvision.no> wrote in message
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> Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Apropos of this, if you have access to a Windows system,
> > try running the following simple program there. Make sure
> > to save all important work first! It just prints out a
> > string over and over again. It couldn't do anything bad,
> > could it? Especially not on WinNT or WIn2K, right?
> > Especially if you have no special privileges, right? :-)
> >
> > with text_io; use text_io;
> > with ada.characters.latin_1; use ada.characters.latin_1;
> > procedure crash is
> > begin
> >    loop
> >      put("Hung up!" & HT & BS & BS & BS & BS & BS & BS);
> >    end loop;
> > end;
>
> Bizarre behaviour indeed. What puzzles me is that I attempted briefly
> to write an equivalent C program, and it did not give the same
> results. Any idea of what's so special about text_io?
>

My guess would be [guess - mind you] that it relies on some API
function which is supposed to handle it but does not. Well, of course,
it was not written in our favorite language :-)