Re: Mars Rover Not Responding

From: Andrew Thompson (andrew64_at_bigNOSPAMpond.com)
Date: 01/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:21:23 GMT

"Joe "Nuke Me Xemu" Foster" <joe@bftsi0.UUCP> wrote in message
news:1074811925.53656@news-1.nethere.net...
| "Michael N. Christoff" <mchristoff@sympatico.caREMOVETHIS> wrote in
message <news:LJXPb.17371$cQ6.662625@news20.bellglobal.com>...
|
| > "This is a serious problem. This is an extremely serious anomaly," said
Pete
| > Theisinger Spirit project manager.
| > "There is no single fault that explains all the observables."
| >
| > "...but Spirit was only transmitting "pseudo-noise", a random series of
| > zeroes and ones in binary code and not anything the scientists could
| > decipher."
| >
| >
| > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3421071.stm
|
| Are they sure it's not just Sun's JVM taking a break to do a GC?

Unless, of course, the software was written
in something like C++ (as has been suggested[?],
and is more likely).

In that case, would it be more likely caused by,
"dangling pointers to objects in deleted heaps"
perhaps? ;-) 

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