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easy to miss bug (even in structured debug)
- To: <tribble>
- Subject: easy to miss bug (even in structured debug)
- From: Ravi Pandya <ravi>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 89 16:08:09 PST
- Cc: <michael>, <mark>, <roland>, <xtech>
- In-reply-to: <Eric>,22 PST <8912011713.AA03032@xanadu>
I can see one major problem with using BOTTOM or void * for functions
that can take NULL arguments: They can then take anything at all, and
we lose ALL compile time type checking. I don't think we gain enough
from the checking to make it worth the loss.
--ravi