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To: MarkL
You must have had a reason to write to the 3000th element of that 10 element array!

Actually... Some of us used that on purpose to write directly to memory.

And then came heap and stack and garbage collection.

And Firefox, with it's massive memory leak.

/johnny

54 posted on 10/13/2011 11:29:16 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Actually... Some of us used that on purpose to write directly to memory.

As did I, using both C and IBM 360 System assembly language. Would occasionally write "self modifying code" to solve issues, but it could be a real pain dealing with memory segments on the Intel architecture. It's really vague to me now... It's been nearly 25 years since I worked as a programmer.

Mark

77 posted on 10/14/2011 12:27:23 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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