Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hcrvx1.UUCP Path: utzoo!hcrvax!hcrvx1!hugh 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 Article-I.D.: hcrvx1.1073 Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:49:59 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 01:12:59 EST References: <5143@rochester.UUCP> <19@decvax.UUCP> Reply-To: hugh@unix.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier) Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto Lines: 5 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 ...