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From: lamaster@pioneer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: catering to bad code
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Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 15:23:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 25 15:23:20 1987
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In article <28200009@ccvaxa> wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>
>Grepping through the Gould UTX 2.0 sources, I found 19 standard 4.3BSD
>progams (out of about 420) had been altered so as to survive in the
>crash-'em-on-null-pointer-dereferences environment. Or rather, that's
>how many had the change commented, and any change to user-level code is
>supposed to be commented.
>
>R.A. Lafferty, *The Devil Is Dead*		Wombat
>					ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat
Which ones are they?



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