Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ncc!alberta!att-ih!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704a-Liber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: nasty evil pointers Message-ID: <3981@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 11 Mar 88 23:54:38 GMT References: <13100003@bucc2> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 15 In article <13100003@bucc2> brian@bucc2.UUCP writes: >It would be nice if we could check every pointer as it was used... This seems to be more of a job for the OS than for the language. If you try to check every single use of pointers, you end up with a language like Pascal :-). I don't mind the checking of pointers as long as it doesn't interfere with the efficiency that those of us who program in C have come to love :-). Also, if the pointer checks find an error, I would like it to transfer control to an error-handling section of my program so that I could either try to recover or go down *gracefully* (saving calculated data, etc.). -- _ __ NEVIN J. LIBER ..!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 (312) 510-6194 ' ) ) "The secret compartment of my ring I fill / / _ , __o ____ with an Underdog super-energy pill." / (_