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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: What is an N-bit machine?
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Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
>I recently read that 6502 processors are still in use in pacemakers.
>You just hope that there is no stack overflow...

No need to hope.  Programs of this size and criticality (and the
corresponding budget) are within reach of verified (or probably rather
proved-by-construction) software.

- anton
-- 
'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>