Re: Buffer Overruns

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () cospo osis gov>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 02:18:59PM -0500, sean.kelly () lanston com wrote:
> I would think that as time goes on these issues will become less and less
> common, because so much code is being done at a high-level now.  C is the
> largest culprit for overruns, many other languages use dynamic data
> structures to store things like strings which makes the likelihod of even
> being able to write code with an overrun much smaller or entirely
> impossible.

And in what language do you write these high-level dynamic data
allocators and [presumably] associated garbage collection language
systems?  Not themselves, certainly!  So, the overrun problem is merely
deferred one level ...

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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