From: "Bob Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu>
Subject: Re: pointer questions
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:34:55 -0500
Date: 2005-11-02T10:34:55-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dkamb1$1d54$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pan.2005.11.02.00.51.10.448346@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk
"Dr. Adrian Wrigley" <amtw@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.11.02.00.51.10.448346@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk...
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:21:37 +0000, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>
> > Robert A Duff wrote:
> >
> >> That's hard to believe. Dr. Wrigley said the hardware failures turned
> >> from "insideous" to "catastophic" when he changed some sort of Things
to
> >> pointers-to-Things. I take that to mean, he got wrong answers before,
> >> and crashes after. Is that right, Dr. Wrigley?
>
> I Thinks so, but the error rate was very low, so it is hard to tell.
>
Wow! That would mean that if you want your software to be reliable, you
should use as many pointers as you can so that you notice the errors - then
you can fix them! :)
Bob
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-26 23:01 pointer questions Szymon Guz
2005-10-26 23:51 ` Gene
2005-10-26 23:58 ` tmoran
2005-10-27 1:12 ` Stephen Leake
2005-10-27 2:30 ` Steve
2005-10-27 5:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-27 10:19 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-27 14:14 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-07 4:21 ` Dave Thompson
2005-10-27 14:11 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-27 15:13 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-27 18:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-27 17:29 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-27 18:28 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-27 19:28 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-28 0:12 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-28 11:57 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-10-28 21:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-30 22:26 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-31 6:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-02 0:52 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-11-02 3:46 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-02 11:16 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-11-02 13:39 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02 15:34 ` Bob Spooner [this message]
2005-11-02 18:59 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-27 18:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-28 0:42 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-28 5:58 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-28 21:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-28 11:53 ` David
2005-10-29 12:25 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-27 17:19 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-07 4:21 ` Dave Thompson
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