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Re: Buffer overflow prevention
From: weigelt () metux de
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:48:54 +0200
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:19:03AM -0400, Sam Baskinger wrote:
It sounds like array bounds checking would offer an almost equivalent effect. This would not stop mis-casting a struct and referencing out of it or similar casting+address calcuation errors. To prevent that you would need either a language that prevented the production of that sort of code or to solve the halting problem.
once you have such an language, you also can use an garbage collector and so throw away an wide field of problems. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux ITS Webhosting ab 5 EUR/Monat. UUCP, rawIP und vieles mehr. phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: contact () metux de cellphone: +49 174 7066481 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Diese Mail wurde mit UUCP versandt. http://www.metux.de/uucp/
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