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Subject: Re: Programming question: Array Bounds Checking

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 09:29:36 08/23/99

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On August 22, 1999 at 19:58:52, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>You got an answer elsewhere about a bounds checker for gcc, but there are a
>couple of other things you can do:
>
>1) Put asserts in in logical places.
>
>2) Add a dummy element after the last element of crucial arrays, and set every
>field in the element to bogus values, and occasionally assert that the element
>is still that way.  This will help you know if something has dribbled off the
>end of the array.
>
>bruce

Good suggestions Bruce. Have to remember these (especially the second one, I'm
already doing the first).

KarinsDad :)



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