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Re:1/0 = 0 by karmakaze on Monday August 13, 2018 @09:46AM (#17750000)
And what if the program is the lowest level and getting into an impossible state due to a hardware issue (bad bit). At some level a program has to soldier-on.
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Re:1/0 = 0 by WalterBright on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:28PM (#17753767)
Then it sets an I/O pin that pulls the reset switch.
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Re:1/0 = 0 by karmakaze on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @08:25AM (#17757227)
I cant tell ic you're being serious. The appropriateness of that would depend on whether the hardware condition was persistent in which case we have a reboot loop. It doesn't seem resonable for software meant to run in a harsh envirinment to assume prefect rumtime conditions. Do probabilitites and tradeoffs ever get considered when faced with inconsistent state?
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