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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: JRComm, VLT, Handshake
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Date: 25 Oct 90 22:11:06 GMT
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In <458@faatcrl.UUCP>, jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>
>>	A note for all programmers out there: there is NO guarantee that
>>location 0 will be 0.  References to location 0 are bugs, and enforcer will
>>trap and report them.  Memmung stuffs a nasty value into location 0 to try
>>to break incorrect programs.
>
>Would've been nice if this was common knowledge *before* the 2091 hit the
>streets.  Alot of programs got bit by this problem, and more than a few
>were written by lawful coders too.

Lawful coders initialize their pointers before use. Mistakes can be made, but
that ends up creating a broken, as opposed to an illegal, program. It better be
common knowledge.

-larry

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