Re: Compaq Alpha Bounds Checking

[blymn () BAEA COM AU (Brett Lymn)]

According to Crispin Cowan:
> .  Since a very large proportion of
> "array bounds" problems have to do with improper use of library functions, this
> is a critical issue.

FWIW Luke Mewburn has added basic argument checking to the NetBSD libc
code, not bounds checking but still helpful.  I believe this work has
been put into NetBSD-current as an optional feature due to the fact
that the argument checking _can_ have a significant negative effect on
the library call performance.

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