Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:10:14 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: mike@smith.net.au, dcs@newsguy.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BootFORTH - demo floppy Message-ID: <80963.914231414@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:06:28 %2B0100." <13401.914231188@verdi.nethelp.no>
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> Of course. But counted strings can make some buffer overflow issues > more visible, and may get the programmer to *think* about this. Counted strings don't buy you anything at all. It's ridiculously easy to overflow the buffers they represent with or without a count field moderating the _corrent_ usage of the string. In other words, it generally makes a good programmer's jobs harder and helps the bad programmer to live only a few extra moments at best, if even that much. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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