Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!greg
From: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSC Danger (was Re: Turbo C vs Quick C)
Keywords: good better best
Message-ID: <2564@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 88 22:11:56 GMT
References: <389@lscvax.UUCP> <567@naucse.UUCP> <2946@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2946@dasys1.UUCP> wfp@dasys1.UUCP (William Phillips) writes:
>In article <567@naucse.UUCP>, wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) writes:
>I know of a case where MSC (4.0 I think) utterly scrambled a hard drive
>(not backed up, natch), when a module compiled with one memory model was
				^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>linked with modules compiled with a different model.  I've forgotten the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>exact details, but I saw what was left of the directories after the
>program was run -- total garbage.  So watch out for that one!
> 
Uh, this is like saying I wrote a program that wipes out hard disks and
when I compiled it and ran it, the compiler wiped out the hard disk so
the compiler sucks.

The underpinnings of compiler technology are not grounded in magic.


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