From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 19 18:46:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA16654 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 18:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (akm@mother.sneaker.net.au [203.30.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA16641 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 18:46:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akm@mother.sneaker.net.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06957; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:54:28 GMT From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199710201154.LAA06957@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: PThread To: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:54:28 +0000 () Cc: george@eps.ufsc.br, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710200013.WAA14748@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Oct 19, 97 10:13:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk +-----[ Joao Carlos Mendes Luis ]------------------------------ | | PS: I really wonder how Solaris can run wrong code and do not | complain at all... :) I'll drift off topic here and just say, that HPUX lets you dereference NULL pointers as many times as you want, without skipping a beat. They always return NULL though, not random data, so I suppose it's an alternative form of robustness. -- ,-_|\ SneakerNet | Andrew Milton | GSM: +61(41)6 022 411 / \ P.O. Box 154 | akm@sneaker.net.au | Fax: +61(2) 9746 8233 \_,-._/ N Strathfield +--+----------------------+---+ Ph: +61(2) 9746 8233 v NSW 2137 | Low cost Internet Solutions |