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From: marty@june.cs.washington.edu (Marty Sirkin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: pointers about TP pointers
Message-ID: <6796@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 88 18:22:08 GMT
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Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I don't know if this helps, but I have written well over 100,000 lines of TP
programs (3.0, 4.0 and 5.0) and have NEVER had any pointer problems that were
not of my own creation.

I have seen many cases (mainly from teaching/grading) where pointer routines
will have a subtle bug which works correctly some times/in some cases, but
not always.  Sounds like what you have.

Perhaps (if it is short enough) you should post (or E-mail - I'll be happy
to take a look) the pointer routines from the program you mention.  If the
whole program is 1500 lines, the pointer routines shouldn't be too long.

							Marty Sirkin