oldben wrote:
Check the typing,
The last fault I found was in a bios library I was revising. A typo in revised branch label,sent me to a random place
in the code. Having had changes just made to the string and printf functions made locating the bug harder.
I am moving away from C strings to a Pascal style string with the first byte indicating length.
The last fault I found was in a bios library I was revising. A typo in revised branch label,sent me to a random place
in the code. Having had changes just made to the string and printf functions made locating the bug harder.
I am moving away from C strings to a Pascal style string with the first byte indicating length.
*cough*
I think you mean BCPL style strings here
Quote:
0 length is a string
constant that is null terminated. This way I can later impliment a string data type, in the langauge I am developing.
constant that is null terminated. This way I can later impliment a string data type, in the langauge I am developing.
Neither way is perfect and both ways have issues. The BCPL way is limiting although it's not always obvious - writing an editor that supports an arbitrary line length for example...
-Gordon