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Re: Naive pointer question ? [message #28936 is a reply to message #28922]

Tue, 22 January 2002 21:03

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Bhautik Joshi (nbj@imag.wsahs.nsw.gov.au) writes:

> and what I think is the coolest:
>
> * double, triple or higher (!!) dereferencing - a pointer pointing to a
> pointer pointing to a pointer pointing to a pointer pointing to a
> pointer pointing to a pointer blah blah *foam at mouth & fall over*

Having just spent the past three days chasing
leaking memory in a complicated object program
with LOTS of pointers to pointers, I have to say
that this prospect is not as cool to me as it *used*
to be. :-(

Cheers,

David
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		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: James Kuyper on Wed, 23 January 2002 08:02
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 January 2002 21:03
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: Bhautik Joshi on Tue, 22 January 2002 20:51
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: James Kuyper on Tue, 22 January 2002 14:34
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 22 January 2002 14:14

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