Yeah, in that time period you couldn't really get away from writing really defensively. It was even worse, earlier. When I wrote C code for x86 there were all

Yeah, in that time period you couldn't really get away from writing really defensively. It was even worse, earlier. When I wrote C code for x86 there were all sorts of different memory models you could choose from at compilation, and we were producing both a 16 bit and a 32 bit (for the daring) versions of our product. You couldn't assume anything. I write java now and this is not something I miss.