Re: What should I say to a *nix community? -- MIDRANGE-L

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I know - was just responding to a DIFferent kind of bad program that Rob was speaking about, from the kind Elvis was speaking about.

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From: Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Huh?

It's just as easy to create a memory leak on i as it is on any other
system.

vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I think Elvis was speaking about a program that has memory leaks and
all - his example speaks of misuse of a pointer - something difficult
to mess up on i, although possible - not a badly written program in
the usual way we do it in business apps, where pointers almost never
enter the equation.

At least until we enter the world of APIs!!

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