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Sender: nate AT cartsys DOT com
Message-ID: <36BCE14D.3522779D@cartsys.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 16:41:49 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Is that bug ?
References: <003801be5223$fca8b380$e1f8c6c3 AT johans-dator>
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Johan Henriksson wrote:

[NULL dereference]
> >Under DOS, Unix that program is crashed, BUT
> >under Windows that program won't crash.
> >What is it ? Is that bug ?
> 
> I have no idéa what that piece of code is doing but here's the fact: Windows
> is too good at errorhandling.

Umm... s/too/no/, I assume.  It doesn't handle it at all; it lacks the
mechanism to even detect it.

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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com

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