Re: Baby X

From	Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Baby X
Date	2013-08-09 20:16 +0000
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On 2013-08-09, Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Friday, August 9, 2013 6:28:56 PM UTC+1, Kelsey Bjarnason wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 12:38:47 -0700, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> No, the mode you should use except in special circumstances is conforming 
>> mode, with maximum warning and error reporting.  That way, when you get 
>> rid of all the warnings and errors, you have *some* vague hope the code 
>> is actually clean and proper... and it will also, very likely, compile in 
>> "default mode".
>> 
>> Code written with the requirement that one turn off or ignore warnings 
>> and errors, except in very rare cases, is code that simply cannot be 
>> trusted.
>>
> I've just Walled it.
> Walling did show up some bugs that I'd missed. Only one which was serious, 
> passing a char instead of an int as a length parameter for a string. Since
> the strings will almost always be under 127 chars, this tested OK, but if
> the edit box goes wider it might fall over. So that was a catch.
>
> Some of the warnings weren't bugs, but were legitimate - functions declaring
> int return types and then not returning a status. That's just sloppiness,
> I prototyped the function before writing it, then didn't change the type
> when in fact there were no error conditions. The code's improved as a 
> result.

Did you fix the one where the value of an uninitialized variable was used?

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Baby X Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2013-08-03 16:40 -0700
  Re: Baby X Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2013-08-04 06:04 +0000
    Re: Baby X "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-08-04 10:29 +0100
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                Re: Baby X glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-08-09 20:01 +0000
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                Re: Baby X Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2013-08-18 21:03 +0000
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                Re: Baby X Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2013-08-10 22:04 -0700
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                Re: Baby X Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2013-08-09 15:29 -0700
                Re: Baby X Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2013-08-10 05:45 +0000
                Re: Baby X Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2013-08-10 03:18 -0700
                Re: Baby X Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2013-08-10 17:02 +0000
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