Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!decvax!cg-atla!ulowell!m2c!jjmhome!cloud9!bob From: bob@cloud9.UUCP (Bob Toxen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Referencing through a null pointer Message-ID: <344@cloud9.UUCP> Date: 1 May 88 00:19:27 GMT References: <4729@cup.portal.com> <1988Apr24.092740.8673@utzoo.uucp> <1766@pixar.UUCP> Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA Lines: 14 Summary: What about little-used code paths? In article <1766@pixar.UUCP>, bp@pixar.uucp (There's too much damn' government) writes: > That day about a dozen programs that had been buggy for years > were fixed... it was only a few hours work to fix them. > > Bruce Perens Well, you found all cases in commonly used code paths. The possibility of cases in rarely used cases is the reason we emulate the VAX behavior in our system ... and we hit cases later. -- Bob Toxen {ucbvax!ihnp4,harvard,cloud9!es}!anvil!cavu!bob Stratus Computer, Marlboro, MA Pilot to Copilot: What's a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?