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Subject: Re: How to build the *weakest* program

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:48:30 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 23:16:03, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On August 20, 2002 at 18:34:29, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Purely an accident.  According to the ISO C standard, it is perfectly OK for
>>execution of the program to cause demons to fly out of your nose (an ancient
>>interpretation from news:comp.std.c).
>>
>>The printf() function is varadic (variable number of arguments).  If you compile
>>a varadic function without a prototype in scope, the behavior of the program is
>>undefined.
>
>The levels of truth:
>
>4. What someone else tells you
>3. What you read in a book
>2. What you read in the documentation
>
>and the highest level of truth is...
>
>1. What the thing does when you run it

Seat of the pants programming kills people.  Literally.



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