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Python slithers into Wesnoth

Python slithers into Wesnoth

Posted Jan 16, 2009 0:02 UTC (Fri) by stijn (subscriber, #570)
In reply to: Python slithers into Wesnoth by tialaramex
Parent article: Python slithers into Wesnoth

A fatal error is just as fatal if it's the runtime saying you accessed an uninitialised array member as if it's the OS saying you accessed an unmapped address.

Yep. In my early days of C I was told: a segfault is what you get if you are lucky. Silent data corruption is worse.


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Python slithers into Wesnoth

Posted Mar 15, 2009 16:14 UTC (Sun) by anomalizer (guest, #53112) [Link]

Anyone who has done serious C coding will agree with that.

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