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Message: [QUOTE="Seamus MacRae, post: 3872208"] It's quite fresh in my memory. I was ambling along, minding my own business and then making a perfectly innocuous suggestion in a perfectly civil post when you viciously assaulted me without provocation. I do not need "debunking", thank you very much. Next time, do not "debunk" unsolicited. Then how the heck is it supposed to know what size the thing is it's pointing to? Regardless, it's been drilled in repeatedly: if "*foo" is encountered when foo is uninitialized, Bad Things may happen. No, I did not. I repeat again: are any of them in widespread use? No, I did not. I repeat again: not IEEE754-compatible ones. Don't patronize me. You appear to be somewhat of a jerk. Please go look in a mirror and adjust that attitude you're wearing. Like hell it wasn't. You publicly berated me and implied in front of a large audience that I was stupid and/or incompetent. What the hell is the MATTER with you? And with several other people in these newsgroups? That isn't for you to decide. It's not a polite discussion, and it hasn't been since you started making things personal. You made several nasty errors: 1. You nitpicked a post of mine. Bad move. 2. Then when I responded to smooth things over, you replied with a more direct and serious attack instead of letting sleeping dogs lie. Big mistake. 3. You continued to not back down when I continued to try to reset things to the appropriate state so that the discussion could move on in other directions. Don't do that! If you nitpick at something someone said and they respond in their own defense, leave it at that. You'll have said your opinion, they'll have said theirs, and everyone can move on. If, instead, you respond by restating your opinion more forcefully, it starts a fight instead, and nobody benefits from that. you're an asshole. Yes, yes, I know. Stop personally-attacking me at once. You will not again use the words "flawed" or "mistaken" to describe me in public. Do I make myself clear? Leave. Me. Alone. These newsgroups are for discussing programming, not people. I am off-topic here. There was no personal attack in my post. Saying that environments that ignore a lot of compiler warnings generate buggy code is not an attack on any particular person. No, I do not. Stop publicly lying about me. NO. YOU ARE NOT. You've said your piece. It does not bear repeating. MOVE ON. Calling me a liar will not make me friendlier. **** you. After you. to send it as private email rather than a public news post? After you. [/QUOTE]

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