Dan Pop writes: > > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Fons Rademakers wrote: > > > I know now (thanks to glibc 2.2), but of all the platforms I've been > > compiling this code on (about 14 different architectures) this is the > > first time it failed. Proving the point that to get robust code > > you have to port it to many different platforms. > > Proving the point that to get robust code *by design*, rather than > *by accident* you have to RTFM :-) Or even proving the point that to get robust code *by design*, it is perhaps better to use a language where most undesirable constructs are simply illegal code ;-) JT
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