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From: ekrell@ulysses.att.com (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Errors aren't that simple
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Date: 2 Mar 90 16:51:13 GMT
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In article <8201@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:

>   The crash apparently was caused by a programmer who used a "break"
>   within an if (which itself was within a switch) for the purpose of
>   exiting the if; the real result was to exit the switch instead.

From what I've heard, the problem was with a "break" statement followed
by dead code (which was critical). If that's the case, you can blame
that particular C compiler for not issuing a warning (some of them do)
or the testers for not exercising the code, but you can't blame C
because the same thing would have hapenned in, say, Ada.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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