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Date: 24 Jul 2004 05:34:19 GMT
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Subject: Re: strange error
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>
>Essentially: because that bug causes what the wizards call "undefined
>behaviour".  And that means literally _anything_ may happen.  It may
>crash only on the 5th Tuesday after Halloween, or send a nasty hate
>mail to your boss on Valentine's day.  Whatever you can imagine can
>happen, and then some.
>

so, that's a real weakness of C.
I might do such math-combinatorial
algos first in Basic and only when speed is a real issue convert it to C. (Is
there a program to convert automatically ?)
Or is there any program/debugger/Compiler around which lets me test the
array-ranges 
in C ?


Guenter