Re: How can i read the stack frames of running process?

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:00:37 -0400, in comp.lang.c , Ernie Wright
<erniew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mark McIntyre wrote:

Either the plaintext or the PDF can be handily searched for whatever
you want to. Obviously if there are typos (I recall some bizarre
diacritical being used occasionally, and definitely some spaces where
none should be), it makes searches harder but this is not the fault of
the file format. There is no intrinsic reason (other than ludditism)
to distrust either search facility.

It's not clear to me what you mean by "instrinsic" here.

intrinsic as in built in?

I have a couple of reasons for distrusting the search facility for PDFs
in Adobe Acrobat. On general principle, it's much easier to screw up
the programming of a search facility for a complex format,

This falls under the heading of "ludditism"... :-)

and it's also
more likely that a richer encoding will contain more errors merely by
chance.

AFAIK the plaintext is generated _from_ the PDF. I doubt its proofread
afterwards, either.

But more specifically, I have several times seen a PDF search
fail for items that I can actually see. There are any number of reasons
this can happen with PDF, none of which apply to plain text.

While there are different reasons why the plaintext search might fail.
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
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