Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?

["Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:

> On 3/3/2011 4:24 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> Consider the 1:10 rule
>
> Anecdote. Probably invented by people who want to sell fancy
> design tools and Ada compilers :-)

You mean fancy tools like PC-Lint, Polyspace, VectorCAST?

> Who says an error found by
> users is the result of design problems and is expensive to fix?

Nobody. Funny thing about bugs is that you don't know them in
advance, so anything here is just based on statistics here. And
we know, that statistics is just another way to lie to people.

> Maybe it's just an off-by-one error that's causing an exception
> to be thrown and the solution is to rejigger the loop a bit.

Or maybe, it's just a simple missing size check and the whole freaking
mail server is taken over by some spammer. :->

See, with open source you can even tell the user to "fuc^H^Hix
it yourself" and save the maintenance cost. ;)


Vinzent.

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