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Re: [Nmh-workers] too many uninitialized variables in nmh-1.1 RC4
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Valdis . Kletnieks |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] too many uninitialized variables in nmh-1.1 RC4 |
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Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:25:47 -0500 |
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:11:50 PST, Norman Shapiro said:
> I often have a manfiest constant WHO_CARES,
>
> #define WHO_CARES (void*)012345
#define WHO_CARES 0xdeadbeef
int foo = WHO_CARES;
Has the advantage that if you *do* make it through the code without actually
setting a known good value, you'll probably get a SIGSEGV or other blatantly
obvious indication that things have gone very very awry. '12345' doesn't always
do that for you....
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