Re: Prototyped Procedures

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:58:12 -0600, Bob Cozzi <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steve,
> You did have the source for the structure you were passing, right?
> Wouldn't you check that DS just like you would Factor 1, 2 and the result
> field entries on any old OpCode?
> Sometimes source is important for debugging as you indicated but as a
> blanket statement that it should always be there for you to see and embedded
> in code (such as the case with Prototypes in the Implementation source) is
> too cluttered for me.

I agree with that.   When I was working with the QtmmSendMail api I
sure could have used the source code of that API to track down the
problems I was having.

Maybe if vendors dont supply the source code, they should provide a
debug version of the service program that does a lot more parameter
checking than the release version.  In my case with the record i/o
functions I think I was calling _rlocate and not specifying the KEY_EQ
option.   A debug version of the API could have easily checked that
option parm and returned a descriptive error message.

-Steve