On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Chris Jacobson wrote:
>I have used Insure++ and CodeWizard, both provided free in exchange for
>links on the MUD's homepage.
Desmond sent me a Purify listing for CircleMUD, unfortunately I have not
had the time to peruse the huge listing...
>Don't let anyone fool you - you are your own worst enemy when it comes to
>coding, because you might trust your own work too much to suspect it, and
Like forgetting to close() a file pointer? There's been two of those found
lately.
>can easily miss a simple mistake such as = being == or vice versa, since
>you are familiar with the code. Desk checking and full warnings and
>errors helps prevent this (I should practice what I preach, some of you
>[George] might say, but hey - why NOT take advantage of compiler
>extensions when you're standardized on the target platform :-)
I always make sure the compiler extensions are disabled on compilers other
than GCC though. (At least for bpl13 I did, check sysdep.h for
__attribute__)
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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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