[Pyrex] Total newbie needs code review

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 12 07:28:41 CEST 2005


Chris Stromberger wrote:

>>You haven't allocated any memory for the input and
>>output structs. 
> 
> But it seems to work as I wrote it...?  What's going on then?

Sheer luck, I expect. Whatever junk initial value
was in your pointers happened to point to a piece
of memory that was writable and didn't clobber
anything in a way that caused an immediate crash.
Not a good thing to rely on!

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