Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!endor!steve From: steve@endor.harvard.edu (Kaufer - Lopez - Pratap) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: nasty evil pointers Message-ID: <4213@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 13 Mar 88 05:37:25 GMT References: <13100003@bucc2> <1159@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <1529@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: saber@endor.UUCP Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA Lines: 28 In article <1529@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> jackm@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jack Morrison) writes: >In article <13100003@bucc2> brian@bucc2.UUCP writes: >> >>It would be nice if we could check every pointer as >>it was used... > >Funny how often I see things in this newsgroup that can be answered >with two words: > try Ada. > >Even funnier because I still prefer using C. > >-- Jack C. Morrison Jet Propulsion Laboratory --- Well, if you are still using C, you should really try an interpreter. The Saber-C interpreter, from Saber Software, Inc., provides full run-time checking of pointers (and many other nasty C things....) More info can be obtained by e-mail or phone... Stephen Kaufer Saber Software, Inc. saber@harvard.harvard.edu 30 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA. 02138 (617) 876-7636 --- Note: As the address indicates, I work for Saber. Having said that, comments about biased reporting to /dev/null!