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"Kevin Cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Richard  Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> > How does one test for a race condition?
>
> I don't test for race conditions.

> > How does one test for a runaway pointer or dangling reference?
>
> I don't test for these.

So you don't test for two major sources of errors?

>  As a general rule, I don't write code that
> would make them possible.

Good. But since you don't use testing
to achieve that you must be using something
else, right?