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Article #242Re: Yet ANOTHER null pointer dereference problem (in "cat")
From: Edward C. Bennett
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1985 14:16
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1985 14:16
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In article <10606@ucbvax.ARPA>, fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Erik E. Fair) writes: > There were two papers given at the Dallas USENIX Conference (Jan 1985) > on this general topic: > > Latent Source Bugs and UNIX System Portability > Alan Filipski, Motorola Microsystems > > Can't Happen or /* NOTREACHED */ or Real Programs Dump Core > Ian Darwin & Geoff Collyer, University of Toronto > > Both papers are replete with examples of How Not To Do Things, cogent > observations about portability, and guidelines for good coding > practices. I recommend them highly to anyone who programs in C at any > time, regardless of whether they intend to make their programs portable > or not. > > Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU OK, I'll bite. How do we obtain copies of these papers? -- Edward C. Bennett UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward /* A charter member of the Scooter bunch */ "Goodnight M.A."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukecc.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: Yet ANOTHER null pointer dereference problem (in "cat") Message-ID: <279@ukecc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 10:16:39 EDT Article-I.D.: ukecc.279 Posted: Fri Oct 11 10:16:39 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 20:19:44 EDT References: <2826@sun.uucp> <2620@pegasus.UUCP> <6027@utzoo.UUCP> <2859@sun.uucp> <10606@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: Univ. of Ky. Engineering Computing Center Lines: 28