On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 05:39:42PM -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> 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...
>

You don't have a way to cater for buffer overflows in C with 100%
confidence, with the only (potential) exception of the case where all
the memory used by the program is statically allocated.

HND

KatolaZ

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