I use portability for debugging

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I use portability for debugging

Gary — 7/27/2005 3:40:22 PM (archived)

Again, I write scientific/engineering programs in C. I want my codes to be used forever so it is very important that they be portable. As I'm developing a code about every few months, I'll recompile the program on every machine that I have access to. Not only does this insure portability but it shakes out many of the "sleeping bugs" that remain hidden when developing on only one machine. Sometimes keeping an old machine alive is useful because it has a squirrely compiler that is super sensitive to bugs. The CCC compiler for the Alpha was an example this. Some of my curliest bugs would pop up for easy removal if I compiled under CCC. Too bad its obsolete and now an orphaned product.

Gary

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a comment on the go for shuttle launch - dwc - 7/25/2005 3:28:49 PM
- re: a comment on the go for shuttle launch - Stealth - 7/25/2005 10:34:41 PM
- re: a comment on the go for shuttle launch - Stealth - 7/25/2005 10:26:38 PM
- my view as posted on msnbc.com - JimO - 7/25/2005 10:03:54 PM
  - You're such a tease - Robert - 7/26/2005 11:42:49 PM
- Could you imagine what the doctors would say if you had a backup heart? - SteveS - 7/25/2005 4:56:42 PM
- Intermittent problems are tough to fix - Larry J - 7/25/2005 4:34:47 PM
  - re: Intermittent problems are tough to fix - phil - 7/26/2005 1:13:19 AM
  - It's like the "array out of bounds" bug in C programming - Gary - 7/25/2005 5:11:08 PM
    - which is itself the best argument against C. - A Programmer - 7/26/2005 3:36:48 AM
      - "Write once, run anywhere" - Robert - 7/27/2005 12:21:13 AM
        
        Love, respect, fear... - McFly - 7/28/2005 2:22:52 PM
        
        re: Love, respect, fear... - Robert - 7/29/2005 4:50:56 AM
        
        re: "Write once, run anywhere" -- will never happen, not even with Java - - - 7/27/2005 2:38:00 PM
        
        "Write once, cry everywhere" - Robert - 7/27/2005 6:46:49 PM
        
        don't you mean cry wolf everywhere, eh? ;-) - A. Prog. - 7/28/2005 11:39:56 PM
        
        re: don't you mean cry wolf everywhere, eh? ;-) - Robert - 7/29/2005 4:15:10 AM
        
        re: don't you mean cry wolf everywhere, eh? ;-) - A.P. - 7/29/2005 9:30:55 PM
        
        No, "cry havoc! and unlease the JARs of dogs!" - Robert - 7/29/2005 11:21:21 PM
        
        More like, "Write once, test everywhere" - Larry J - 7/27/2005 1:50:04 PM
        
        Evolution in action - Robert - 7/27/2005 5:23:14 PM
        
        re: Evolution in action - Larry J - 7/27/2005 7:27:59 PM
        
        re: Evolution in action - Robert - 7/27/2005 8:57:38 PM
        
        re: Evolution in action - Larry J - 7/27/2005 9:24:33 PM
        
        transformative technology - Robert - 7/28/2005 3:45:35 AM
        
        I use portability for debugging - Gary - 7/27/2005 3:40:22 PM
    - re: It's like the "array out of bounds" bug in C programming - Larry J - 7/25/2005 5:53:32 PM
      - No, that code snippet will actually run... - Gary - 7/26/2005 6:11:17 AM
        
        Run code run...C code run...PLEASE! - McFly - 7/27/2005 12:34:31 AM
        
        Programming languages that I've known and forgotten - Gary - 7/27/2005 5:18:07 AM
        
        Goodness sakes! - McFly - 7/28/2005 2:03:34 PM
        
        re: No, that code snippet will actually run... - Larry J - 7/26/2005 1:40:21 PM
        
        Darn it!! The Zone's HTML logic ruined that last post - Gary - 7/26/2005 6:19:12 AM
        
        Let's try this (reposting Gary's code) - Robert - 7/27/2005 5:39:40 AM
        
        It ran clean on the first pop (also I did not write this program) - Gary - 7/27/2005 5:48:07 AM
        
        I'm sorry - Robert - 7/26/2005 11:19:37 PM
        
        The fault is entirely mine - Gary - 7/27/2005 4:12:47 AM
        
        Let's split the difference - Robert - 7/27/2005 5:04:33 AM
        
        Hoist on me own filter - Robert - 7/27/2005 5:09:48 AM
        
        The symbols appeared clean for Mozilla 1.7.8 (n/t) - Gary - 7/27/2005 5:35:32 AM
      - seems right - Daniel - 7/25/2005 6:06:24 PM
        
        The philosophy of C - Larry J - 7/25/2005 6:15:16 PM
        
        I used it for a while in the late 90s - Daniel - 7/25/2005 6:27:19 PM
        
        another correction - D. - 7/25/2005 7:38:08 PM
        
        correction .. - D. - 7/25/2005 6:32:34 PM

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