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

[Walter Bright]

On 4/8/2014 3:55 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 09:46:51 UTC, 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.
>
> Yes I know, another broken design decision.

Looking at C's decisions from our perspective is a bit unfair. The only really 
unforgivable one, from the perspective of the times when it was designed, is the 
one where arrays decay to pointers when passing them to functions. This 
completely defeats any attempt at detecting array overflows.