g4sra via Dng said on Sun, 25 Jul 2021 10:26:46 +
>And this is why ever sice I entered the profession I have maintained
>that programmers should be vetted and certified in a similar manner to
>other professions such as doctors and lawyers, carrying a similar
>social status. Only those with th
On Sunday, July 25th, 2021 at 6:53 PM, Simon Hobson
wrote:
> Andreas Messer a...@bastelmap.de wrote:
>
> > Once we had a crash in
> > simple limit switch device. As a result the high-rack robot pushed a
> > pallet in 15m height out of the rack. Fortunately, it was just another
> > robot which w
Andreas Messer wrote:
> Once we had a crash in
> simple limit switch device. As a result the high-rack robot pushed a
> pallet in 15m height out of the rack. Fortunately, it was just another
> robot which was destroyed (stood just below) - not a human being. Still
> a very expensive case for the
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> Why I'm so critical about letting it crash: I typically deal with stack
> sizes of no more around 2-8kB in automation devices and have to be careful
> with that. You can't simply let a newspaper printing machine's motor control
> crash, 1000's of newspaper pages would be trashed. Once
On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> However the manual of alloca() states that "There is no error
> indication if the stack frame cannot be extended." If the same would
> happen with automatic variables, I would expect a crash; otherwise it
> would be a serious fl
