Quotes

[cjsmith]

me: Is my brain still mush? Probably. I spent over an hour on an uninitialized pointer this morning.
rfrench: Sounds painful; you should stand up.

Comments

[meep.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that does hurt.

[airporter.livejournal.com]

Can you "ouch" while laughing?

Dare I say it?

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

You should be programming in Java. No uninitialized pointers.

Re: Dare I say it?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it builds some seriously bad habits. That's the problem, y'see; the past six months I've been in Java, and now I'm in C again, and I have become stupid.

Re: Dare I say it?

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

java's no better - you're just trading pointers for setters (:

[bendoutdoors.livejournal.com]

I laughed when I read Rob's comment. Does that make me a geek?

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

Duh.

[nosrednayduj]

*shrug* I've spent DAYS on things that turned out to be uninitialized pointers or other bonehead errors. Depends on how far away the corruption is from the source... My coworkers thought I was a hero.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Depends on how pointy it is before it's initialized....