On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:17:21 -0800
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> It's a heap-based buffer overflow

Nevder understood how buffer overflows were not catered for at compilation time.

Many moons ago ISTR that attempting something that could result in a buffer overflow would cause the compil to abend with a 0C7, 0CA or 0CC Exception code...

Cheers,

Ron.
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