Michael Torrie wrote: > If that happened, then it's because you the programmer wanted it to > happen. It's not just going to happen all by itself. Yes anytime > pointers are allowed, things are potentially unsafe in the hands of a > programmer. I'm just saying it's not nearly so bad as you make it out > to be. Follow basic rules and 99% of segfaults will never happen and > the majority of leaks will not happen either.
Oh great. So if the average application creates a hundred thousand pointers of the course of a session, you'll only have a thousand or so seg faults and leaks. Well, that certainly explains this: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1332213 Manual low-level pointer manipulation is an anti-pattern. What you glibly describe as programmers following "basic rules" has proven to be beyond the ability of the programming community as a whole. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
