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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: catering to bad code
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Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 15:40:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 15:40:05 1987
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> >> At any rate it has been my experience that something like 70 - 80 %
> >> of the C programs I have ported have had pointer problems.
> >
> >Grepping through the Gould UTX 2.0 sources, I found 19 standard 4.3BSD
> >progams (out of about 420) had been altered...
> 
> ... the code that I was talking about when I said 70 - 80 % had 
> pointer problems was not the code from 4.3BSD. ...

It is worth pointing out that Berklix (x.yBSD) is not a fair test case
for NULL-pointer problems, because the interaction between Berkeley and
Sun shook most of the NULL-pointer bugs out of Berklix.  Sun did it because
the hardware of the early Suns pretty much demanded an inaccessible page
at location zero.
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