On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
>> I'm still unconvinced that this is a Good Thing. We'll see what Tim has
>> to say.
>
> Clearly he agrees!
>
Well.... I think that the NULL termination is a good idea but I was
extremely worried that doing this would cause hard to find bugs. I fell
foul of this during my testing and now that teh second person has segved
on only the second attempt to use datGetVC I can see two futures:
1. Everyone reads the documentation (which surprises me since SUN92 is
not up to date) and no core dumps ensue
2. Everyone assumes the Fortran allocation style and random core dumps
happen.
Clearly #2 is the most likely scenario so I should cave in.
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
