From: Lloyd Zusman Date: 2004-08-29T05:26:48+09:00 Subject: Re: performance comparison Martin DeMello writes: > Charles Mills wrote: >> >> C is enough of an expression language that the compiler did not >> complain about a statement which evaluated an expression, had no >> side-effects, and simply threw away the result. We didn't know whether >> to bless our good fortune at locating the problem, or cry with >> frustration at such a common typing error causing such an expensive >> problem. Some versions of the lint program would have detected this >> problem, but it's all too easy to avoid the automatic use of this >> essential tool. > > Nevermind the programmer, but I'm amazed that when they hit that sort of > debugging task they didn't bother linting the code. > > martin Maybe that's how they found the error. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com God bless you.