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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:55:35 -0400, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> Am 08.04.2014 16:57, schrieb Steven Schveighoffer:
>> Note, you can disable bounds checking on an expression basis by
>> replacing this:
>>
>> arr[x]
>>
>> with this:
>>
>> arr.ptr[x]
>>
>> The only tricky part is if you have to slice, and you are using $:
>>
>> arr.ptr[x..$]
>>
>> doesn't work, you have to use:
>>
>> arr.ptr[x..arr.length]
>>
>
> Is that only allowed in @system?

Probably. Is that an issue? Disabling bounds-checking in @safe code is a  
bad idea.

-Steve