Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/14/22:07:47
At 07:02 5/14/1998 -0400, John M. Aldrich wrote:
>Gerhard Gruber wrote:
>>
>> That's not exactly true. If you use the MFC (recommended by MS) then you get
>> hundreds of codelines calling assert() to ensure that there is no null
>> pointer.
>>
>> I can't believe it! I just wrote a mail that defends MS. Must getting sick or
>> the heat affects my brain. :)
>
>I guess that post must have been tongue-in-cheek. After all, *0 is a
>NULL-pointer dereference and all the asserts in the world won't catch
>it. :-) However, cwsdpmi bombs on it while Windows just keeps on
>truckin'...
But probably he means that with Mircosoft MFC, `*0' expands to:
assert(0);
*0;
How inspired.
Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com
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