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From: The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.athghost7038suus.net>
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit     addressing and OOP
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In comp.lang.java.advocacy, Frank J. Lhota
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on Thu, 08 May 2003 15:21:37 GMT
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> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@sirius.athghost7038suus.net> wrote in
> message news:83jno-vjm.ln1@lexi2.athghost7038suus.net...
>> No problem, the C compiler would have caught it. :-)
> 
> Not necessarily! Most C compilers will compile the following code without
> warning, although actually calling this version of funcname is bound to
> cause trouble.
> 
> /**************************************/
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> void funcname (FILE file)
> {
>    fprintf( &file, "Hello, World!\n" );
> }
> 

Ewww.  Buffer loss, memory leak.  Not good.  :-)

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