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  3. June 2013

Re: Data structure overlay *next failure

On 6/20/2013 8:20 AM, Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2) wrote:

If I found that a predecessor had coded a ds like that with a mixture of
relatively-positioned and specifically-positioned subfields, I would
feel obliged to hunt them down and put them out of their misery! It
would be SO easy to misinterpret that code. :-)


Humbly beg pardon for writing that.

We might imagine that such horritude as I wrote would only ever be written by someone who has to devise sneaky testcases for the compiler.

But we would be wrong. I have seen real customer code that is at least as icky as my little example.


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