Re: segmentation fault on calloc

From: Mathieu Fregeau (mathieu.fregeau_at_polymtl.ca)
Date: 11/02/03 

Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:00:05 -0500

Hi Mans,

in fact, there is documentation, but not intended to an eventual developper
to modify its source... only for a user! The long reply list suggest me that
nobody in the world have an idea of a solution. am I right?

Mathieu
"Måns Rullgård" <mru@kth.se> a écrit dans le message de
news:yw1xn0ber5py.fsf@kth.se...
> "Mathieu Fregeau" <mathieu.fregeau@polymtl.ca> writes:
>
> >> > code. Rewritting the code is NOT an option. (about 10 years of
> >> > developement at NASA).
> >>
> >> Unfortunately there are many cases where a decade of development has
> >> produced an astonishing amount terrible code. It might be working,
> >> but any attempt to tinker with it results in things breaking, as we
> >> have seen. If only people could structure their code a little bit.
> >
> > in fact it is structured, but it is not documented.
>
> OK for structured, but it uses global variables, which is bad. As for
> documentation, that's equally important to code quality when dealing
> with long-lived code. I can barely understand my own code that I
> wrote less than a year ago.
>
> --
> Måns Rullgård
> mru@kth.se

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