Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I presume this doesn't work on a protected-mode OS?
> 
>   Well, the program has some memory allocated for itself, so if the pointer
> happens to point to such memory, it will print gibberish. If it points to
> unallocated memory you get a segmentation fault.

Right. Thought so...

>   The C++ version of printing to stdout (or to a stream) is much safer
> from this point of view. (While you *can* make it behave the same way,
> it's much harder to do so accidentally.)

I don't really know C++, but from what little I've seen printing *looks* 
safer...


OOC, how does C do argument passing? [I'm puzzled as to why it's 
possible for a function with variable arguments to exist.]

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