Re: Scripting Languages and Secure Coding

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At 1:43 PM +1100 12/5/03, Louis Solomon [SteelBytes] wrote:
> > > The C compiler and popular C library routines do not have bugs
> >
> > If you think this you are deluding yourself.  No body of code as large
> > as either is bug-free.
>
> acutally that's a good point if you think of it loosely ...
> think of all of those unsafe string funcs that cause many of the current
> buffer overflows probs.

But that is a natural consequence of choosing C with it's null terminated
(rather than counted) strings.