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From: hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Runtime trapping of program bugs
Message-ID: <1073@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:49:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:49:59 1985
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Reply-To: hugh@unix.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Summary: 


Watfor for the IBM7040 initialized variables to a bad parity word
using an undocumented (I am given to understand) machine instruction.
This caught one of the more common errors: use of uninitialized
variables.  However, if the memory got a real parity error ...