On 7/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Padraig suggests to change the debug/logging output in the broken
>> programs that way; that seems like a fine solution. In debugging output
>> NULL is potentially interesting.
>
>Guess why my personal printf() does this...;-)
>
>I know that I may add some simple debug printf()s to my program without
>needing to care about NULL pointers.
Yes; but it is *really* bad for production code because it will
cause code to continue to run in the presence of bugs.
Casper
For more of a devil's advocate view, take a look at this research
about "Failure Oblivious Computing" at http://lwn.net/Articles/188059/
and http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/tech/rinard.html.
Mike
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http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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