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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!sequoia!IRIS.bio.uts.EDU.AU!mhart
  2. From: mhart@IRIS.bio.uts.EDU.AU (Michael Hart)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
  4. Subject: Re: bad GL code locks up 4D-25
  5. Date: 11 Nov 1992 08:48:15 GMT
  6. Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
  7. Lines: 18
  8. Message-ID: <1dqhcfINNbb2@sequoia.ccsd.uts.EDU.AU>
  9. References: <101064@bu.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: iris.bio.uts.edu.au
  11.  
  12. Yes,
  13.     When we were running the old Irix 3.3 I had some buggy code
  14. which actually rebooted the system.  I traced it to a rectwrite()
  15. call which was actually trying to transfer more pixels than allocated
  16. in the picture array.
  17.  
  18.     Every time I ran the code to try to find the bug I had to wait
  19. for the system to start up again.
  20.  
  21.     I don't know if this happens with the newer operating systems.
  22.  
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  24. | Michael Hart                  | "If you want a straight line take  |
  25. | Biomedical Science Dept       |  only two points."                 |
  26. | University Of Technology      | "If reproducibility is a problem   |
  27. | mhart@bio.uts.edu.au          |  do the experiment only once."     |
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