Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 16:48:46 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ack! Help, Andrey! I'm having troubles in libdialog! Message-ID: <199511080048.QAA16967@bubba.tribe.com> In-Reply-To: <199511070650.HAA25533@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 7, 95 07:50:22 am
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > ! char result[127]; > > > > Ye gods, was that really it?! > > When looking around on the Usenix ftp server, i've stumpled across a > paper called `canthappen[.ps.Z]'. It's titled > > Can't Happen > or > /* NOTREACHED */ > or > Real Programs Dump Core > > One of the rules: Avoid magic numbers... Or, as John Ousterhout calls them, "voodoo constants" ... :-) -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com
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