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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
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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?