Re: Out-of-bounds nonsense

Richard Heathfield <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Charlton Wilbur said:

Do the wrong thing with your memory, and the computer crashes.

Might crash. Or might do something more - um - creative. Or might do what
you expected. Or might do what you expected *and* something creative with
which to surprise you later on. Isn't programming exciting!?

True. I learned C on MIPS machines with memory protection, and so
when I did the wrong thing with my memory, the program obligingly
crashed. As annoying as it was at the time, this was a great
pedagogical help.

Then I started working on Linux at home and MIPS or Alpha at school,
and learned what "portable" really meant -- and that was just among
different varieties of Unix.

Charlton


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