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Re: Segmentation Fault

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On 05/15/2012 03:27 PM, pembed2012 wrote:
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> The code was by a "genius programmer" who has gone away, his code was 
> superefficient but maybe the variable names were not helpful and the 
> documentation was minimal :-)

Don't give the original author more credit than he deserves. A truly
professional programmer chooses variable names that are helpful, and
creates documentation that is more than minimal, and would use
appropriately named macro(s) rather than hard-coded numbers like 9, 10,
and 11. If his code is as super-efficient as you say, it's likely to be
due to an algorithm developed by someone else that he was aware of,
rather than his own original work.

You described the documentation as "minimal" rather than "non-existent".
If there is documentation, posting a copy of that documentation would
make it a lot easier for us to give you helpful responses.

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Segmentation Fault pembed2012 <once@was.enough.invalid> - 2012-05-14 16:45 +0000
  Re: Segmentation Fault John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-05-14 17:00 +0000
    Re: Segmentation Fault Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-05-14 13:44 -0700
      Re: Segmentation Fault Edward Rutherford <edward.p.rutherford79@REMOVETHIS.gmail.com> - 2012-05-14 21:07 +0000
        Re: Segmentation Fault John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-05-14 21:10 +0000
  Re: Segmentation Fault James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-05-14 13:25 -0400
    Re: Segmentation Fault pembed2012 <once@was.enough.invalid> - 2012-05-14 21:00 +0000
      Re: Segmentation Fault James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-05-14 17:21 -0400
      Re: Segmentation Fault John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-05-14 21:24 +0000
        Re: Segmentation Fault John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-05-14 21:35 +0000
        Re: Segmentation Fault pembed2012 <once@was.enough.invalid> - 2012-05-15 19:27 +0000
          Re: Segmentation Fault "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-15 20:38 +0100
            Re: Segmentation Fault pembed2012 <once@was.enough.invalid> - 2012-05-16 19:56 +0000
              Re: Segmentation Fault James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-05-16 16:17 -0400
              Re: Segmentation Fault James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-05-16 16:17 -0400
          Re: Segmentation Fault John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-05-15 19:56 +0000
          Re: Segmentation Fault James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-05-15 15:58 -0400
            Re: Segmentation Fault Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-05-18 01:02 +0000
          Re: Segmentation Fault Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-05-15 20:10 +0000
            Re: Segmentation Fault lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2012-05-15 17:43 -0400
              Re: Segmentation Fault James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-05-15 18:27 -0400
            Re: Segmentation Fault gordonb.dxbbb@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2012-05-19 02:37 -0500
  Re: Segmentation Fault "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-14 22:17 +0100
  Re: Segmentation Fault Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-05-14 10:02 -0700
  Re: Segmentation Fault Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-05-14 11:33 -0700
  Re: Segmentation Fault Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-05-16 20:17 +0000
    Re: Segmentation Fault nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-05-17 03:05 -0700
      Re: Segmentation Fault Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2012-05-17 11:07 +0000
    Re: Segmentation Fault pembed2012 <once@was.enough.invalid> - 2012-05-17 19:50 +0000
      Re: Segmentation Fault James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-05-17 16:59 -0400
      Re: Segmentation Fault Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-05-18 07:22 +0000

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