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- From: mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu (M. J. Saltzman)
- Subject: Re: Unsolveable bug
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.170040.7134@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University, Clemson SC
- References: <204@zurich.spectrospin.ch> <131@mccoy.dbaccess.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:00:40 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <131@mccoy.dbaccess.com> steve@dbaccess.com (Steve Suttles) writes:
- >[...]
- >Forget about bugs in malloc implementation. They would have been
- >found.
-
- Well, it would be nice if this were true, but I just found one last week.
- To be sure, this is the last thing to suspect, and search for such a
- bug should only be undertaken when all other possibilities have been
- rigorously eliminated. Also, the odds are that for widly-used systems,
- malloc() is pretty well shaken down by now.
-
- >While your mistake might be in the area of malloc'ed memory,
- >it is a mistake in the requests that were made, rather than the
- >fulfillment of those requests. But if you honestly believe you
- >haven't messed up with malloc, don't give up; keep looking until you
- >find it. Computers only do what they are told, after all...
- >
- >When one is discovered that doesn't, it gets sent out to be fixed.
- >
- >sas
- >--
- >Steve Suttles Internet: steve@dbaccess.com Dr. DCL is IN!
- >CROSS ACCESS Corporation UUCP: {uunet,sgiblab}!troi!steve Yo speako TECO!
- >2900 Gordon Ave, Suite 100 fax: (408) 735-0328 Talk data to me!
- >Santa Clara, CA 95051-0718 vox: (408) 735-7545 HA! It's under 4 lines NOW!
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- Matthew Saltzman
- Clemson University Math Sciences
- mjs@clemson.edu
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