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RE: Why Java for Robots (was NXT and bluetooth enabled phones)
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:06:39 GMT
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Original-From:
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Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@arm./StopSpam/com>
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PeterBalch wrote:
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> What is a robot sitting on Mars to do if it gets an "out of memory" or
> "illegal pointer value" or "array bounds exceeded"
> error? The first two should never ever happen in a robot. The last
> should have been caught by the compiler.
Well what about an indexation based on a sensor value?
How could your compiler know the range the sensor has?
Sample:
int volatile *color_sensor = (int *) 0x4000;
int getColor(void)
{
static int color[4] = { 123, 456, 789, 111 };
return color[*color_sensor];
}
How would you tell your C compiler that the real range of the color
sensor is 0..4 and not 0..3? No static analysis will get that!
I guess that puts C in your "shoot the language-designer"
category :)
Laurent
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