nasty evil pointers

[00704a-Liber]

In article <13100003 at bucc2> brian at bucc2.UUCP writes:
>It would be nice if we could check every pointer as it was used...

This seems to be more of a job for the OS than for the language.  If you try to
check every single use of pointers, you end up with a language like Pascal
:-).  I don't mind the checking of pointers as long as it doesn't interfere
with the efficiency that those of us who program in C have come to love :-).
Also, if the pointer checks find an error, I would like it to transfer control
to an error-handling section of my program so that I could either try to
recover or go down *gracefully* (saving calculated data, etc.).
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