Robin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> BTW, the Ariane integer overflow was not the first such
> occurrence.
> In 1981 the manned space shuttle STS-2 suffered from an integer
> out of range used in a computed goto (the language was assembler).
> Luckily the error was picked up by a chance event -- viz., launch
> was delayed by a small accident.
Are you sure? I thought all of the Shuttle code was written in HAL-S.
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