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From: papa@uscacsc.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: JRComm, VLT, Handshake
Message-ID: <3042@uscacsc.usc.edu>
Date: 28 Oct 90 23:11:13 GMT
References: <2159@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <465@faatcrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: papa@uscacsc.UUCP (Marco Papa)
Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles
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In article <465@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>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.
>
>  True, mistakes can be made.  But, most systems also have location zero
				     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>set to a null value and it *can't* be changed, unlike the Amiga, right?
			    ^^^^^^^
Where did you get those ideas? I guess you've never seen what happens
when you start clearing low-mem on one of the >15M pcs out there, or macs
for that matter. On UNIX location zero can't be changed, but if accessed
your program will get i big nice segmentation violation.  I wonder what
systems you're talking about.

Your is a *big* cop out.  Thre are *no* excuses for buggy software.
BTW, there has NEVER been a Commodore document that says that location
zero is set to null. Assuming anything like that for the Amiga is simply 
stupid.

-- Marco