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- From: mjr@TIS.COM (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.misc
- Subject: Re: Note to any fellow DikuMUD coders...
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 02:57:16 GMT
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- stine@handel.psu.edu (Jeffrey Stine) writes:
-
- >I've worked on machines where this call did not work and would produce a
- >seg fault. There is nothing wrong with transforming the address this way
- >provided it is done correctly.
-
- Sure. You cal also make your code "portable" by including the
- complete source of a libc that you trust to work. If the system libraries
- are broken, that's an implementation detail you should work out with
- the vendor - rewriting library routines in a way that works "provided it
- is done correctly" is not good programming.
-
- mjr.
-