Yet ANOTHER null pointer dereference problem (in "cat")
Edward C. Bennett
edward at ukecc.UUCP
Sat Oct 12 00:16:39 AEST 1985
In article <10606 at ucbvax.ARPA>, fair at ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Erik E. Fair) writes:
> There were two papers given at the Dallas USENIX Conference (Jan 1985)
> on this general topic:
>
> Latent Source Bugs and UNIX System Portability
> Alan Filipski, Motorola Microsystems
>
> Can't Happen or /* NOTREACHED */ or Real Programs Dump Core
> Ian Darwin & Geoff Collyer, University of Toronto
>
> Both papers are replete with examples of How Not To Do Things, cogent
> observations about portability, and guidelines for good coding
> practices. I recommend them highly to anyone who programs in C at any
> time, regardless of whether they intend to make their programs portable
> or not.
>
> Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair at ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU
OK, I'll bite. How do we obtain copies of these papers?
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Edward C. Bennett
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