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ACT Release GTK Based Development Environment

Posted by timothy on from the making-money-with-free-software dept.

aidan skinner writes: "ACT have a new GTK based IDE out for Ada, C and C++, called GPS. There's a Press Release, Quick Tour(pdf) and Detailed Tour. It's also apparently editor neutral, so I don't have to give up my beloved emacs... Sweet!"

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  1. Shittiest web site ever? by dimator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes.

    --
    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
  2. NULL pointers in C++ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have read that one good thing about Java is that it does not rely on pointers for memory management. Is that true?

    Also, I recently have begun a C++ class and on the subject of pointers, the textbook says this:

    Never dereference the "NULL" pointer.

    Well, after reading that, I decided that -- being a total programming geek after all :) -- the VERY FIRST THING I wanted to try to do was to "dereference" this NULL pointer.

    Unfortunately, the textbook did not go into detail about how this could be accomplished -- no surprise there.

    So can someone tell me what the probably outcomes of dereferncing &NULL would be? Is it really as dangerous as the book's author suggests?

    (It occurred to me that it might have a similar effect to something that I read about a while, back -- "Tao of Windows Buffer Overflow" -- this article. )

    So does anyone here know how to "dereference the NULL pointer"?

    I would appreciate some detailed sample code.