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From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/22
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In article <4lgaeq$l1g@galaxy.ucr.edu>, Tom Payne <thp@cs.ucr.edu> wrote:
>Granted, if its an embedded controller in a life-support system, I'd
>like every routine to make every effort to muddle through even in the
>presence of bizarre hardware faults, etc.  In general programs, however,
>I'd like them to crash as soon as possible when something is wrong, and
>for that reason I've gone back to the  i != 10  style for upper limits
>on for-loops.

But that means it will keep going, possibly for a long time.
Better to assert or print warnings.  (I am a great fan of debugging messages;
many of my programs will cheerfully produce a megabyte or minute or more of
warnings and traces from normal operation.  A lifesaver when something goes
wrong.)

-s
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