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Article #13072Re: catering to bad code
From: lamaster
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1987 20:23
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1987 20:23
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In article <28200009@ccvaxa> wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>
>Grepping through the Gould UTX 2.0 sources, I found 19 standard 4.3BSD
>progams (out of about 420) had been altered so as to survive in the
>crash-'em-on-null-pointer-dereferences environment. Or rather, that's
>how many had the change commented, and any change to user-level code is
>supposed to be commented.
>
>R.A. Lafferty, *The Devil Is Dead* Wombat
> ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat
Which ones are they?
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!pioneer!lamaster From: lamaster@pioneer.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: catering to bad code Message-ID: <372@ames.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 15:23:20 EST Article-I.D.: ames.372 Posted: Wed Feb 25 15:23:20 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 22:22:27 EST References: <14833@amdcad.UUCP> <28200009@ccvaxa> Sender: usenet@ames.UUCP Reply-To: lamaster@pioneer.UUCP (Hugh LaMaster) Distribution: na Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 24