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• Quote #441 Whenever things get tough, C++ wimps out and forces another pointer indirection.
  Of course, this 'solves' the problem for the C++ implementor, but throws a much larger problem over the fence onto the poor application writer and/or memory manager, who is now forced to deal with a much higher load of smaller objects....
• People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten. -- Jon Bentley
• Free fuel, deliveries daily (re: solar energy)
• Quote #305 "Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
  -- Jon Bentley...
• aliasing bug n. A class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic allocation, esp.
  via malloc(3) or equivalent. If several pointers address (`aliases for') a given hunk of storage, it may happen that the storage is freed or reallocated (and thus moved) through one alias and then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle (and possibly intermittent) lossage depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc arena....
• aliasing bug: n. A class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic allocation, esp.
  via `malloc(3)' or equivalent. If several pointers address (`aliases for') a given hunk of storage, it may happen that the storage is freed or reallocated (and thus moved) through one alias and then referenced through another, which may lead to subtle (and possibly intermittent) lossage depending on the state and the allocation history of the malloc {arena}....
• The following appeared in the editorial section of Monroetown's local newspaper.
  "Mayor Brown was recently re-elected by a clear majority of 52 percent of Monroetown's voters....
• Quote #576 Read my paper and weep. -- Henry Bake
• Friendship is neither transitive nor inherited. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language