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From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
Subject: Re: Question on UAE's when running TPW
In-Reply-To: root@chshost.in-berlin.de's message of Wed, 12 Jun 1991 03:19:16 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.201510.20136@odi.com>
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
References: <91157.094647F0O@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Jun12.031916.1760@chshost.in-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 20:15:10 GMT

In article <1991Jun12.031916.1760@chshost.in-berlin.de> root@chshost.in-berlin.de (Thomas Liening) writes:
  >   I've heard other people say when you're running other windows programs
  >and get a UAE, you should exit ASAP to avoid any possible further damage.

  The most easy way (provided that your machine is equipped with two monitors)
  is to run the app being developed under a debugger. This way,
  *none* of my programming mistakes were able to affect other apps, and
  Windows continued to run as well, certainly.

False security.  The debugger cannot catch a "wild write" that clobbers
a data segment belonging to another Windows app, or to Windows itself.