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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pragmas
Message-ID: <6985@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Jan 88 05:47:28 GMT
References: <8801021358.AA15890@decwrl.dec.com> <1766@bsu-cs.UUCP> <6939@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1797@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1797@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>The point being that semantically equivalent virtual machines could
>still be remarkably different in speed and memory capabilities.

Well, yes, but I would expect that since the software presumably passed
testing, it would be adequate.  Nothing unexpected should sudden crop up
at run time that wouldn't also be a problem for things besides pragmas.
(If this occurred, it would indicate that some section of the code had
not been adequately tested.)

Besides, those missiles will be using Ada anyway, so the DoD says.
What a joke.