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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:08:01 +0200
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Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 
> Manuel Collado wrote:
> > Thanks to all who respond. After considering the suggestions, I think
> > I'll keep the initial proposed scheme. It doesn't follow the Ada
> > programming style, but is straightforward. And in some cases it can be
> > reduced in fact to passing the address, because the size is already an
> > explicit parameter in some procedures.
> 
> This is the way C does it. Decades of experience with C have shown that
> this is the source of many subtle errors.

I'm certainly aware of that. But I'm not writing new code, but simply
trying to precisely reproduce the behaviour of legacy, hopefully
debugged code.

> 
> Enjoy your long nights with the debugger.

I hardly use debuggers. In case of errors, I insert assertions and print
sentences to selectively trace program's execution. And I do extensive
unit testing.
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