Re: Netscape 7 issues.

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 07/12/03 

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:48:33 +0000 (UTC)

"Dr. David Kirkby" <drkirkby@ntlworld.com> writes in comp.sys.sun.admin:
|a) The bug had not been found when compiled using Sun's C compiler
|with the compiler's 'memory access checking' enabled.

Memory access checking is a feature of the Sun/Forte debugger, when
running the program, not of the compiler building it. 

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