* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 03:57 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > >Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C. > > > > You're lucky with 'none of the above'. It could be...
Luck has nothing to do with it > >1. No array bounds checking (Fix: use vector<> or equivalent) > > Real-world idiot fix: My name is 7 characters; give it twenty, > we'll never need more than that! Then use that twenty inline in > the code, as well as simplifying the expressions a little so we > get the related constants 21 (w/ null), 19 (can't count, > paranoid), 8, 9, 10 (unicode), and infinity (core dump). > > >2. Pointers (Fix: use references, iterators etc.). > > Real-world idiot fix: Pass everything by value. Who needs > pointers, references, etc.? Use indices with magic constants as > the bounds (see above) to iterate arrays. > > BTW: I disagree _strongly_ that pointers are a misfeature of C. > They are a very useful tool. However, misuse of pointers > is a misfeature of some programmers. Real-world troubleshooting technique: put ulimit on stack size. If program segfaults on int main( int argc, char **argv ), ------------------------- segfault here -----------^^^^ it has both of the above. [ snip ] Yeah. BTDT, got more t-shirts than I'll ever need. Dima -- The wombat is a mixture of chalk and clay used for respiration. -- MegaHal
