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On 02/10/2024 08:34, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> On 10/1/24 6:24 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote or quoted:
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> printf("hello world"); That's bug proof.
>>> Wait, what? Where’s your error checking? What if your printf fails?
>>> Actually that’s one of the things I like least about C. It leaves all 
>>> error
>>> checking up to the programmer instead of having even a minimal 
>>> handler for
>>> errors not otherwise caught.
>>
>>    You could write a wrapper for printf, "myprintf",
>>    that will call printf and then do minimal error handling.
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <stdarg.h>
>>
>> int myprintf( char const * format, ... )
>> { va_list args;
>>    va_start( args, format );
>>    int const result = vprintf( format, args );
>>    va_end( args );
>>    if( result < 0 )fprintf
>>    ( stderr, "Error: printf failed with return code %d\n", result );
>>    return result; }
> 
>    The whole context of 'C' was that COMPETENT PROGRAMMERS
>    existed and could/would assess error conditions as THEY
>    chose to do so.

The reality of C is that even competent programmers find this
very difficult and often make elementary mistakes with potentially
serious consequences, as we see on a daily basis.

-- 
Bill F.