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Article #1678Re: Anarchic protocol ANY (occam2)
From: Jonathan Greenfield
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 16:53
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 16:53
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In article <1758@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk> geraint@prg.ox.ac.uk (Geraint Jones) writes: >I'm not sure what you think is the design flaw: the programs in question >are not guaranteed to work (by the occam2 Reference Manual). The only >`unexpected' behaviour is that Inmos' occam2 compiler happens to produce >code which makes this invalid non-program do what its author expected in case >the communication is on hard channels. It is _very_ hard to guarantee that >all incorrect programs do something unexpected; the usual contract with a >language implementor is that all correct programs should only do the >expected. A secure language implementation detects any violation of the language definition, either at compile-time, or at run-time. If a language cannot be implemented in a secure manner, then the language design is flawed. If a language can be implemented in a secure manner, but a particular system fails to do so, then the system design is flawed. Jonathan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!fernwood!uupsi!rodan.acs.syr.edu!wotan.top.cis.syr.edu!greeny From: greeny@wotan.top.cis.syr.edu (Jonathan Greenfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: Anarchic protocol ANY (occam2) Message-ID: <1991May20.113104.25938@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Date: 20 May 91 16:53:11 GMT References: <9105152020.AA15174@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU> <LLW.91May17095750@corwin.eng.yale.edu> <1758@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (Jonathan Greenfield) Organization: CIS Dept., Syracuse University Lines: 17