From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 6 23:20:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA07066 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 23:20:57 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA07054 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 23:20:46 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA26908 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 08:20:38 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA03043 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 08:20:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA25533 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 07:50:23 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511070650.HAA25533@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Ack! Help, Andrey! I'm having troubles in libdialog! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 07:50:22 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <1462.815696284@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 6, 95 02:18:04 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 629 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > ! char result[127]; > > Ye gods, was that really it?! > > That's it. I quit. If anyone's looking for me, I'll be in Idaho in > my new job as a potato farmer.. :-) :-) When looking around on the Usenix ftp server, i've stumpled across a paper called `canthappen[.ps.Z]'. It's titled Can't Happen or /* NOTREACHED */ or Real Programs Dump Core One of the rules: Avoid magic numbers... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)