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Re: gcc and mint-libs PL46

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Subject: Re: gcc and mint-libs PL46
From: Bjarne Pohlers <bjarne@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 00:32:20 +0200
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 05 Jun 1995 16:31:54 -0000. <9506051531.AA03046@mail.imc.exec.nhs.uk>
Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany Department of Mathematics

|>Chris Herborth wrote:
|>>I'm really amazed (and a little frightened) by the amount of flack we're
|>>getting for suggesting that the libraries be made a little (a very
|>>little!) more robust...  Do all of you always check your paramters
|>>before every system call?  Do all of you always check your return
|>>values?
|>
|>Amen. How much larger would a program be if the libs did the check for
|>NULL (once) instead of the program (many times, potentially)?
|>
*Please* can we stop that discussion. The fact is, there are libraries
(not only the MiNT library) which do not check parameters to fopen &
co. So the program has to check it itself to be portable.

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