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I vaguely remember reading about that actually happening some years ago. Control system written in C++, bad data comes in from a sensor causing a floating poin
by skipkey 3y ago
I vaguely remember reading about that actually happening some years ago. Control system written in C++, bad data comes in from a sensor causing a floating point exception which was not caught locally, and the outermost catch code was basically, “explode the rocket”.
Might have been in the c++ Users Journal or Dr Dobbs in the late 90s.
- trothamel 3y agoProbably the first flight of Ariane 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88