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From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
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Subject: Re: Yet ANOTHER null pointer dereference problem (in "cat")
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 10:16:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 10:16:39 1985
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In article <10606@ucbvax.ARPA>, fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Erik E. Fair) writes:
> There were two papers given at the Dallas USENIX Conference (Jan 1985)
> on this general topic:
> 
> 	Latent Source Bugs and UNIX System Portability
> 		Alan Filipski, Motorola Microsystems
> 
> 	Can't Happen or /* NOTREACHED */ or Real Programs Dump Core
> 		Ian Darwin & Geoff Collyer, University of Toronto
> 
> Both papers are replete with examples of How Not To Do Things, cogent
> observations about portability, and guidelines for good coding
> practices. I recommend them highly to anyone who programs in C at any
> time, regardless of whether they intend to make their programs portable
> or not.
> 
> 	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU

	OK, I'll bite. How do we obtain copies of these papers?

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