Re: [Chicken-users] c-string return question

[Jörg F . Wittenberger]

On Oct 13 2011, John Cowan wrote:

> Jörg F. Wittenberger scripsit:
>
> > So I'll stick with the test case and remove the "static" keyword from
> > the buffer definition once I have an updated gcc in my production
> > environment.
>
> "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to
> show their absence!" --Edsger Dijkstra
>
> And this is especially true for Heisenbugs like this.  Keep the 'static'
> permanently: it's safe and it costs essentially nothing.

Except for the reentrance/thread safety issue that is!