--- "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:21:57PM +0800, Horatio B.
> Bogbindero wrote:
> > fortunately, i am teach all my programming classes with
> gcc.
> > maybe that will be a good start.
>
> one very good reason to use gcc is to avoid accessing
> invalid memory -
> in Turbo C you can overwrite other bits of memory causing
> crashes.
i really agree with this. i remember the countless times i
had to reboot just because of a bad pointer (even a
seemingly innocent scanf can do so much havoc!). because of
that, somehow my mind has been conditioned that if no
compile errors show up in my C program, that program will
hang upon execution 8)
-dre
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