In article <37afd18c@news.povray.org> , Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi>  
wrote:

>   The fact that a program doesn't crash in certain platforms doesn't mean
> that the program is bugless.
>   I once made a program which worked just fine in SunOS and Digital Unix
> but crashed in a malloc()-call in Linux. Was there some problem with Linux
> memory management?
>   Not at all! Actually the memory management of Linux was better than the
> ones in SunOS or Digital Unix. The bug was in my program (I made an
> off-by-one mistake when writing to a table). The memory management of
> Linux saw this and crashed the program while SunOS and Digital Unix were
> unable to. Thanx to Linux I found the problem and was able to fix it.
>   So the bug _may_ be in the program although it works in some systems.

Yes, I know. As I said, with a different Mac compiler (= different C
libraries) we get problems like that, too. Unfortunately  you never know
(without knowing where in the code it happens) if a compiler bug or a code
bug causes writing to an invalid location.


     Thorsten


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