A serious security bug... caused by no bounds checking.

Tue Apr 8 08:02:49 PDT 2014

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:46:57AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/8/2014 1:47 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> >I never got the point of not having bounds checking in C and its ilk.
> 
> C hardly even has arrays.

And just yesterday, I caught yet another long-standing off-by-1 array
overrun bug in the C code I was working on at work, that obviously
nobody else noticed. Sigh...

T

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