dynamically allocating on the stack

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 01:30:55PM +0000, Cym13 via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 April 2018 at 12:08:09 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
[...]
> > Unbounded allocation on stack is kind of anti-pattern and a
> > potential DoS vector.
> 
> I'm having trouble seeing how unbounded heap allocations aren't
> equally a potential DoS vector.
[...]

Generally speaking, the heap is much bigger than the stack (often many
times so) and so is less prone to overflow.  Though it's true, it still
does happen if you just blindly allocate memory based on unsanitized
external input.


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