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From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:21:40 -0400
Date: 2002-06-20T11:21:40-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D11F304.9030906@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: aeq407$lvr$1@nh.pace.co.uk

Marin David Condic wrote:
 > Things like parameter passing to subroutines

C++ has full checking for subroutine parameters.
Do you have an example of what you think doesn't work?

> the referencing/dereferencing of things by address

C++ does not guarantee that dereferencing a null pointer
will be caught, although on many platforms this causes as
access violation which terminates the program.

Other than that, what does Ada do in regards to pointer
dereferencing that is safer than C++?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-20 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-16  2:10 Faulty languages and Liability David Botton
2002-06-16  3:18 ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-16  4:58   ` Robert C. Leif
2002-06-16  4:58 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-06-16 11:52   ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-16 13:07     ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17 14:56       ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18  5:00         ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 13:35           ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-06-18 14:59             ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 19:25               ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-19 17:18           ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-19 19:31             ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-19 17:57           ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16 14:33     ` David Botton
2002-06-16 18:28     ` Mike Silva
2002-06-17  0:48       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-17  4:09         ` David Botton
2002-06-17 12:59           ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17  7:04         ` Mike Silva
2002-06-17  8:29         ` AG
2002-06-17 13:21           ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-17 14:37             ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17  3:16     ` Robert C. Leif
2002-06-17 13:36       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-17 14:51         ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17 14:26           ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-17 15:55             ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17 16:29             ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18  5:18               ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 13:10                 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18 21:27             ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-18 20:02           ` John Kern
2002-06-18 22:17             ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-19 15:47               ` John Kern
2002-06-19 18:06                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17 16:25         ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18 19:29           ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-19 12:58             ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-17 19:00         ` Mike Silva
2002-06-17 20:27           ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-17 21:07             ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18  1:09             ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-06-18  4:52               ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 13:49                 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-06-18 14:15                   ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-19 12:35                     ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-19 14:20                       ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-20 13:50                         ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-20 16:53                           ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-20 18:56                             ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-20 15:21                         ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2002-06-21 17:21                           ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-06-21 22:00                             ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-23  4:50                               ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-23  9:13                                 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-06-23 10:29                                   ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-23 13:21                                     ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-06-23 18:24                                       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-23 19:27                                 ` Pat Rogers
2002-06-24  2:50                                   ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-24 14:05                                     ` Pat Rogers
2002-06-18  6:14             ` Mike Silva
2002-06-18  8:53             ` newsfraser
2002-06-18 19:33               ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-18 12:49             ` Steve O'Neill
2002-06-18 13:49               ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-17 19:00         ` Mike Silva
2002-06-17 20:38           ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18  3:45             ` Mike Silva
2002-06-18 15:11               ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 15:54                 ` chris.danx
2002-06-18 18:01                   ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18 17:12                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17  7:34     ` AG
2002-06-18 21:17       ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-16 22:26 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-17 14:38 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18  8:57 ` chris.danx
2002-06-19  0:34   ` tmoran
2002-06-19 20:28 ` Mike Silva
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