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From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:34:35 -0500
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 > I think 3B2 code deserves its own place in hell.  Poring over
 > the ESS#5 code, someone found that there were lots of
 > strcmp(p, "f(") == 0 checks (I may have gotten the exact
 > string wrong but it's close).  It took us a while to figure
 > out why.  Apparently, location 0 on the 3b had the 3 bytes
 > 'f' '(' '\0', someone noticed that when programs blew up
 > they were pointing to "f(", and the worlds most amazing
 > kludge for detecting nil pointers was born.

Happily, it wasn't actually 5ESS, only Unix.

	Dennis