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From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.intel
Subject: unsafe computing (Was: correct code for pointer subtraction)
Summary: not for unsupervised use
Keywords: C pointer math runtime errors
Message-ID: <492@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 89 14:55:32 GMT
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> problem the compiler writer had to deal with.  If a translator for a 
> language exists on a machine, it should translate programs into a form
> that executes correctly on the target machine, or at least inform the
> operator that a problem exists.  That's the whole point of a high level
> language.

presumaby you expect C to detect arithmetic overflow as well.
and subscript errors.
and invalid pointers
and ...

C is not a high level language.
C is not a language for the average programmer.
its wholesale adoption by the PC community is a disaster
for both the language and that community.
perhaps you should consider something in the Pascal line.