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Article #2445Re: Turbo C's Run Time Error Messages
From: Chuck Anderson
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 1990 21:03
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 1990 21:03
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In article <6243@uceng.UC.EDU> dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) writes:
>error messages. One particularly annoying message says at the end
>of the program, "null pointer assignment." I have no idea where
>I assigned some value to a null pointer, and even if I did, it doesn't
>seem to effect my programs. I don't like this statement coming up
>at the end of my program. Is there any way to turn run time error
>messages off?
OUCH!! This one's gonna' bite you in the arse eventually. You're program is
doing a wild write into memory. Change the environment and you could see some
nasty *a*ffects.
> Does TC give any assistance in tracking down this error.
Well, do you have the debugger? I had this problem... once :^) and when I ran
the debugger the environment was changed enough that the affect of this "null
pointer" was quite obvious.
Don't let this ride. It is something that you need to find!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!isis!canderso From: canderso@isis.cs.du.edu (Chuck Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Turbo C's Run Time Error Messages Message-ID: <1990Sep30.210345.1361@isis.cs.du.edu> Date: 30 Sep 90 21:03:45 GMT References: <6243@uceng.UC.EDU> Reply-To: canderso@isis.UUCP (Chuck Anderson) Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver Lines: 26