> Robustness demands checking of everything passed into a function for
> possible failures -- such as an inappropriate NULL pointer.

That  depends.  Often returning a run-time error will just mask the 
problem, while a segfault means the programming error will be fixed.

You're supposed to check fopen() for NULL, and not just blindly pass it 
into fprintf.

        /r$

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