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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: generic imports?  void* -> generics?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:16:21 -0500
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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> > It's best if the abstraction can withstand extra calls to Initialize
> > and Adjust; it has to withstand extra calls to Finalize (as they can
> > happen in abort situations).
>
> I can see the Initialize -- not so sure how you could tell about extra
> Adjusts?

Humm, I think you're right; you can't really protect against extra Adjusts.
And they are the least likely to happen by accident (I think they can happen
only by an explicit call or compiler bug), so they're the least important to
protect.

                   Randy.