Programming Language for Games, part 3

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/1/2014 5:56 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 November 2014 at 00:47:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 11/1/2014 4:04 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
>> <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
>>> Anyway, I believe you can turn on bound checks with some C-compilers if you want
>>> it,
>>
>> Won't work, because C arrays decay to pointers whenever passed to a function,
>> so you lose all hope of bounds checking except in the most trivial of cases.
>
> There are bounds-checking extensions to GCC.

Yup, -fbounds-check, and it only works for local arrays. Once the array is 
passed to a function, poof! no more bounds checking.

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gcc/gcc_13.html