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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Debugging versions of malloc and free (was Re: The free() thing)
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Date: 17 Sep 89 15:57:32 GMT
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Hey, come on -- ANSI conformance should be a tool, not an obsession.  So
what if someone's DEBUG version of a program isn't conformant because it
plugs in a custom malloc().  Big deal!  You're not going to distribute
that version to mere users anyway.  Even if it would be nice to allow
other platforms to run it ("you say P:Squib 2.3 blew up with memory
error 5?  OK, rebuild it with -Dmalloc=mymalloc and mail me the output")
it's just a luxury, not an absolute requirement.  You do it where you
can get away with it (which will be plenty) and write off the rest.
-- 
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