🚀 go-pugleaf

jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>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-

It's been common knowledge as long as there has been a C language that
dereferencing a null pointer in C is a bug.  I don't think Commodore
was under any special obligation to jump up on that soapbox again; that
harangue has been done to death.  Buggy code is buggy code, and trying
to blame it on the hardware vendor when it bites you is a bit lame.
                                                           /// It's Amiga
                                                          /// for me:  why
Kent, the man from xanth.                             \\\///   settle for
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>   \XX/  anything less?
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