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Giuliano
fpcl...@silvermono.co.za ha scritto:
Hi Graeme
You have a point.
About two months ago, I had to visit the dentist because one of my filings was
playing up. The diagnosis was that an old silver filing was leaking and
needed to be replace
El Sat, 9 May 2009 10:08:50 +0200
Graeme Geldenhuys escribió:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:24 AM, "Vinzent Höfler"
> wrote:
> >
> > Actually, you should answer one simple question for yourself: If
> > your life really depended on the system, would you still trust it?
>
> In that case we should a
fpcl...@silvermono.co.za wrote:
The dentist's reply was that
this was a special version of windows specifically designed to run medical
related critical software. Not being an offensive character, I gave him the
benefit of the doubt. While he was attempting to start the 'tooth profiling'
Pr
Hi Graeme
You have a point.
About two months ago, I had to visit the dentist because one of my filings was
playing up. The diagnosis was that an old silver filing was leaking and
needed to be replaced. Becase of all the hype about mercury poisoning caused
by silver filings (which from my knowl
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
wrote:
> For example , in an airplane fall-down many years before ( approximately
> 110 deaths ) it has
> been found that in the automatic pilot software an error situation used a
> STOP statement . During landing it caused release of control
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
wrote:
> For example , in an airplane fall-down many years before ( approximately
> 110 deaths ) it has
> been found that in the automatic pilot software an error situation used a
> STOP statement . During landing it caused release of control
fpcl...@silvermono.co.za wrote:
Hi guys,
Over the last few years, I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of
object pascal code that compiles successfully using the FPC and Delphi. To
date, I have not encountered any problems with the code generated by the
FP Linux compiler. I don't hav
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:24 AM, "Vinzent Höfler"
wrote:
>
> Actually, you should answer one simple question for yourself: If your life
> really depended
> on the system, would you still trust it?
In that case we should all be very worried. Many critical systems out
there run on Windows - we as
Von: "Hans Mårtensson" :
> But then, in case of zero-tolerance, if you trust the compiler, what
> about the OS? and, worst, what about your program?
And what about the CPU? ;)
> I wouldn't trust the reliability of anything before the full system has
> been tested under working conditions.
Wha
Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Fri, 8 May 2009 14:35:52 -0300
Gustavo Enrique Jimenez wrote:
Hi Nino:
I am using FPC since 2000-2001. I use it for data aquisition and
temperature control. Console programs compiled with FPC 1.x work for
days, even weeks. In the "Laboratorio de Física del Sólid
Mattias Gaertner :
> But I second Jonas mail: Before you run an fpc program in a
> zero-tolerance environment, you have to test a lot of things, because a
> lot of code was not written with zero-tolerance in mind.
Testing simply isn't enough. As we all should know, testing only proofs the
exista
On Fri, 8 May 2009 14:35:52 -0300
Gustavo Enrique Jimenez wrote:
> Hi Nino:
>
> I am using FPC since 2000-2001. I use it for data aquisition and
> temperature control. Console programs compiled with FPC 1.x work for
> days, even weeks. In the "Laboratorio de Física del Sólido, Tucumán -
> Argen
Wow!, is good to know I'm not the only Argentinian using FPC.
Leonardo M. Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com
--- On Fri, 5/8/09, Gustavo Enrique Jimenez wrote:
> From: Gustavo Enrique Jimenez
> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] A question or two regarding the FPC
> To: &qu
Hi Nino:
I am using FPC since 2000-2001. I use it for data aquisition and
temperature control. Console programs compiled with FPC 1.x work for
days, even weeks. In the "Laboratorio de Física del Sólido, Tucumán -
Argentina" (Solid state physics laboratory) we have used programs
compiled with FPC
On 08 May 2009, at 19:02, fpcl...@silvermono.co.za wrote:
In your opinion, how would you rate the suitability of the FPC
generated code
for use in an environment where there is near zero tolorance to
failure?
Unsuitable. There are no systematic unit tests for most parts of the
compiler,
Hi guys,
Over the last few years, I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of
object pascal code that compiles successfully using the FPC and Delphi. To
date, I have not encountered any problems with the code generated by the
FP Linux compiler. I don't have much experience with FPC within
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