Re: More benchmark bullshit, and Linux luser mating calls... (was Re: Linux betas NT in TPC testing, running Oracle8

nws_at_rollingthunder.demon.co.uk (Anthony Ord) writes:

>>
>>How can pointers in structures be naughty?

>Can someone point out how to do linked lists and binary
>trees without them?

(a) Array indeces
(b) object references (which need not be pointers)

Pointers as used in C are inherently "unsafe", though it is silly to complain about this as a Linux problem. It's not like many of the competitive OSes are written in something else that is "better"

-dB Received on Tue Apr 27 1999 - 23:58:41 CEST