Referencing through a null pointer

Bob Toxen bob at cloud9.UUCP
Sun May 1 10:19:27 AEST 1988


In article <1766 at pixar.UUCP>, bp at pixar.uucp (There's too much damn' government) writes:
> That day about a dozen programs that had been buggy for years
> were fixed...  it was only a few hours work to fix them.
> 
> 					Bruce Perens

Well, you found all cases in commonly used code paths.  The possibility
of cases in rarely used cases is the reason we emulate the VAX behavior
in our system ... and we hit cases later.
-- 

Bob Toxen	{ucbvax!ihnp4,harvard,cloud9!es}!anvil!cavu!bob
Stratus Computer, Marlboro, MA
Pilot to Copilot: What's a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?



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