From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T09:03:45+09:00
Subject: Re: performance comparison

Yes, that was the book :)

I have several others, I don't remember the exact
programming error that was in it. There are plenty of
other typo bugs that are easy to make that lint will
not catch. Just be around and watch OS developers more
often. The DragonFlyBSD team often report what they
are working on in the channel, plus I read the
commits. 

--- Charles Mills <cmills@freeshell.org> wrote:

> On Aug 27, 2004, at 3:34 PM, David Ross wrote:
> 
> >
> > --- Lothar Scholz
> <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Typos are by definition easier to find in static
> >> typed programs.
> >
> > Oh really? That would explain the 20 million
> dollar
> > bug..
> >
> > s=2 when it was meant to be s==2
> >  :)
> >
> 
> Did you get that deep C secret from "Expert C
> Programming"? :)
> If I remember right he goes on to say that any half
> way decent version 
> of lint would have found that bug.  Then he argues
> that lint should 
> have never been separated from the compiler in the
> first place.  Not 
> sure but I think the bug was the reverse 's==2;'
> instead of 's=2;'.  
> The statement was all alone on one line and would be
> flagged with a 
> warning by just about any compiler these days -
> statement with no 
> effect.
> -Charlie
> 
> 
> > --David
> >
> >> -- 
> >>  Best regards,                        emailto:
> >> scholz at scriptolutions dot com
> >>  Lothar Scholz
> >
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