Re: How to develop a random number generation device

On Sep 9, 1:48 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[....]
Watch dogs don't always recover the system from a glitch. If you are
storing data in battery back RAM or flash, you need to be sure that
wrong values don't cause things to hang in some non-recoverable way.

One of my programming rules is that data should never be able to crash
code.


The assignment statement is more dangerous than a GOTO.

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