Re: Real data for a change in the assignment operators and Bounded_String discussions.

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> And the final message is:
> 
> : georg@strudel:/tmp$   ./whole
> Killed
> georg@strudel:/tmp$ 
> 
> after a few minutes and total exhaustion of physical memory
> and swap space. Another interesting C program :-)

Don't lose any sleep over this.  The only "debugging" I did on the Ada 
version was to add a couple of New_Line calls, and remove a couple of 
blanks from the Put calls to make the output look prettier.  And that is 
sort of the point. If I hadn't been "publishing" the code, I wouldn't 
have even done that, just used the results and gone on.  In Ada, I could 
do some pretty fancy string manipulation in "throwaway" code just to 
make the overall program simpler.

I am sure I could debug my way through to a working version of a similar 
C program.  But I certainly wouldn't try to do it with the same style of 
pasting string sections together from long and unhappy experience.  In C 
(and C++) I'd much rather write the program to work on one line of input 
at a time, with only one (malloced) buffer.

-- 

                                                        Robert I. Eachus

�In an ally, considerations of house, clan, planet, race are 
insignificant beside two prime questions, which are: 1. Can he shoot? 2. 
Will he aim at your enemy?� -- from the Laiden novels by Sharon Lee and 
Steve Miller.