[prog] Bug!!

[Jimen Ching]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Akkana Peck wrote:
>Jimen Ching writes:
>> There isn't really much benefit except to new C programmers that might
>> fall into this trap.  But once you learn it, you most likely won't
>> make the same mistake.  ;-)
>I wouldn't want to try to count the times I've debugged problems that
>boiled down to a highly experienced programmer making this error
>(dereferencing already freed memory).  I'm not sure I can count that
>high. :-)  Experienced programmers can get sloppy even though they
>supposedly know better, and programmers make this error all the time.

To err is human.  But I'm not sure if I can use the adjective 'sloppy'
along with 'highly experienced' when describing a programmer.

I don't want to sound Narcisistic, but I haven't ran into any memory
problems in quite a while.  Of course, I use C++ and encapsulation now.
Which validates your memory wrapper idea.  Well, encapsulation takes it
one step further, but same basic idea.

--jc
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