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In article <8807071341.AA09718@banzai-inst.sw.mcc.com> Info-Modula2 Distribution List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
>I hope we're not going the way of C which thinks it's acceptable to give "an
>exception" (core dump) every time some poor programmer passes NULL to
>strlen()!

I only wish most C implementations did do this!  Passing NULL to strlen()
is WRONG.  It DESERVES a core dump.  But brain damaged BSD code (amongst
other brain damaged code) does it all the time.  This is not so wonderful when
it needs to run on brain damaged machines such as the 286!  And AT&T seems
to have picked up the habit now as well!

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I'm sorry.  I know this is the Modula 2 forum and that it has a commendably
high signal to noise ratio, which I'm hurting with this posting, but I
have spent 3.5 years explaining this and it just punched my button.

		--Darryl Richman
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