From: frank@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning)
Subject: Re: Uninitialized "out" parameters
Date: 1996/07/25
Date: 1996-07-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4t6f9d$12p0@news.ccit.arizona.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4t4r0s$8te@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
In article <4t4r0s$8te@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
(Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> Roughly the third most frightening thing I have seen in a computer
> manual is the advice
> "If your program is halting with range-checking errors,
> and you don't want to address those problems immediately,
> you can always omit the {$R+} compiler directive
> [thus suppressing the range checks] for the time being."
> to be found in the Turbo Pascal 5.0 User Guide on p207.
Not to be argumentative, but I'm curious as to why you think this is so
bad? Granted, it's bad if a programmer gives in to the temptation to
release a program that fails unless range checks are suppressed. On the
other hand, it might be useful to examine the behavior of the program if
you can somehow prevent it from halting, if only for diagnostic purposes.
-- Frank Manning
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Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-18 0:00 Uninitialized "out" parameters Paul Whittington
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-07-19 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-19 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Frank Manning [this message]
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Michel Gauthier
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Is 'out' different from 'in out' (Was: Uninitialized "out" parameters) Michel Gauthier
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Michel Gauthier
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Uninitialized "out" parameters John Herro
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Uninitialized variables, Java example Arra Avakian
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Uninitialized "out" parameters Stephen J Bevan
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Uninitialized variables, Java example Felaco
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1996-07-29 0:00 Uninitialized out parameters W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
2016-04-05 12:02 ahlan
2016-04-05 13:17 ` rieachus
2016-04-05 14:07 ` ahlan
2016-04-06 9:45 ` Mark Lorenzen
2016-04-06 21:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-07 7:10 ` ahlan
2016-04-05 16:19 ` G.B.
2016-04-06 8:19 ` ahlan
2016-04-06 10:17 ` G.B.
2016-04-06 11:44 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-04-06 20:41 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-04-06 20:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 20:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 21:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 21:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-07 7:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 11:37 ` AdaMagica
2016-04-06 13:44 ` ahlan
2016-04-06 14:09 ` Mark Lorenzen
2016-04-06 14:10 ` G.B.
2016-04-06 20:53 ` Stefan.Lucks
2016-04-06 21:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 21:12 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-04-06 21:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-07 9:56 ` Stefan.Lucks
2016-04-07 16:08 ` AdaMagica
2016-04-07 23:02 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-08 7:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-07 7:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
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