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From: roland@cochise.pcs.com (Roland Rambau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: common bugs in C programs
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Date: 1 Feb 90 17:04:03 GMT
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malkie@hpqtdla.HP.COM (Malcolm Rix) writes:

->in the common firmware group we have been collecting a list of the most
->frequent problems:

->(1)  Misinterpretation of number bases (i.e. 0x12 != 12 or 0x01000 != 8).
....
->(26) Misunderstanding dereferencing of things like *(a->b).

my favorite :-) selfmade error:

  (n+1) Not declaring an external float function as extern _float_ when the
        returned value is never used ( this doesn't matter e.g. on the vax,
        but yields a bogus stack when porting e.g. to the apollo :-)



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