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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Long #defines (Re: Lattice/SAS C  5.10 HERE!)
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.072724.10926@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 30 Aug 90 07:27:24 GMT
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mab@druwy.ATT.COM (Alan Bland) writes:
> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>> [about backing up Rad: onto floppies before compiles]
>
>This is not meant to fault your programming skills, but you've been lucky
>not to have trashed RAD: by a mistake in your own program.  I've done it
>on rare occasions, all you gotta do is get a wild pointer that happens to
>point into the RAD: area of memory, or at the system vectors that allow
>it to be recoverable.

Oh, but I'm one of those old timers who can write FORTRAN code in any
language.  You mean C has _pointers_?   ;-)

Kent, the man from xanth.
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