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From: jmsc@inesc.UUCP (Miguel Casteleiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bug in Manx 3.6a c.lib
Keywords: bug, compiler
Message-ID: <809@inesc.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 04:09:53 GMT
References: <494@tolsun.oulu.fi> <102473@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
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In article <102473@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, page%rishathra@Sun.COM (Bob Page) writes:
> nix@tolsun.UUCP (Tero Manninen) wrote:
> >Have anybody found such a bug in Manx 3.6a that it leaves dos.library
> >open when program compiled with cc have exited ?
> 
> Depending on your viewpoint, it's not a bug.  The only reason to close
> dos.library is to decrement the open count ..  [...]  Thus closing
> DOSBase doesn't accomplish anything except maybe peace of mind. [...]

   Not quite, it's a question of style and good programing education.
   You should close what you open, and free what you alloc (and don't relie
on the operating system (or the C compiler) to do that for you).
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