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Re: Buffer overflow prevention
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (weigelt@metux.de)
Fri Aug 15 13:40:25 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:48:54 +0200
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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
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