Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU From: MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Undelivered mail Message-ID: <12358@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 13 Mar 88 15:06:02 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 47 Subject: Re: nasty evil pointers [Non-Deliverable: User does not exist or has never logged on] Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Received: From UWAVM(MAILER) by ALASKA with Jnet id 1086 for SXJVK@ALASKA; Sun, 13 Mar 88 05:42 AST Received: by UWAVM (Mailer X1.25) id 7016; Sun, 13 Mar 88 06:41:42 PST Date: Sun, 13 Mar 88 05:37:25 GMT Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Sender: Info-C List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was news@husc6.harvard.EDU From: Kaufer - Lopez - Pratap Subject: Re: nasty evil pointers Comments: To: info-c@BRL-SMOKE.arpa To: Vic Kapella 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!