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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: C Programming Bugs
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Date: 16 Mar 90 03:25:38 GMT
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In article <530@fwi.uva.nl> freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) writes:
> In article <1990Mar15.052046.20348@athena.mit.edu>
> rsfinn@athena.mit.edu (Russell S. Finn) writes:
> >
> >The bug is that MaxMem is being called with an argument of $00800000,
> >instead of the address of a longword (IM II-38);
> 
> This should be a lesson to all: NEVER program in C!  :-) :-) :-)

In writing my ApplicationMenu INIT, I've seen this kind of bug in many 
applications.  You would be surprised to see how many application pass the 
address of a Point to MenuSelect instead of the Point itself.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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