Re: JRComm, VLT, Handshake

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From: Jack Radigan
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 1990 02:18

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jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:

>	A note for all programmers out there: there is NO guarantee that
>location 0 will be 0.  References to location 0 are bugs, and enforcer will
>trap and report them.  Memmung stuffs a nasty value into location 0 to try
>to break incorrect programs.

Would've been nice if this was common knowledge *before* the 2091 hit the
streets.  Alot of programs got bit by this problem, and more than a few
were written by lawful coders too.

  -jack-

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Subject: Re: JRComm, VLT, Handshake
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