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From: "Bob Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: pointer questions
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:34:55 -0500
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"Dr. Adrian Wrigley" <amtw@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk> wrote in message
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> 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