Re: Re: New CNC software rev finally done...

Jon,

Great answer!

The powerbasic compiler I told you about also does this type of
compile time and run time checking! User selectable in both cases.

Ballendo


Alan M wrote:

>>Just curious, why could you have "NEVER gotten this working in
>>plain C"

Jon E wrote:

>I've done it all, patched multi-user timesharing systems through the
>front panel switches, etc. You really don't want to write assembly
>language programs more than a few thousand lines.
>and the checking that (plain) C can do on pointer references is
>quite weak. With Pascal, the checking at compile time is VERY
>rigorous, and the checking at run time can be enabled to catch all
>sorts of programming flaws that would lead to erroneous output,
>unpredictable performance and general "crashiness" of the programs.

<snip> but you have to refrain from going around the C++ restrictions

>to do things the 'easy' way.
>Jon