Re: RDS vs. I4GL (was: How to read Flat files from 4gl)

<bpayne@netcom.com> (Bob Payne) wrote: [...] >2) r4gl will do bounds checking on variables. c4gl and i4gl will not. > If you programmatically overrun the bound of your variables in r4gl, > no harm done. But if you do it in c4gl/i4gl, you will either over- > write whatever is stored in memory next to it or you will try to > write to storage that you can't get to (segmentation violation). Not entirely and dependably true. In at least one version of r4gl (was it 4.00 or 4.10?) I wrote past the end of an array and clobbered some other variables. I was kinda suprised that fglgo didn't catch it, but it didn't. Bob Rusk rrusk@fll-ro.DHL.COM