Re: Buffer overflow prevention

From: weigeltat_private
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 14:48:54 PDT

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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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