Re: Ancient history
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Re: Ancient history

From: Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn@null.net>
Date: Tue Jun 14 2005 - 05:42:06 CEST

Nick Maclaren wrote:
> Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>A simple action is to add a statement saying, "Checks for
>>queue/buffer overflows shall be performed and an appropriate
>>recovery action performed."
> The problem is that nobody knows when such things are legal and
> when they are not in C.

That's nonsense. It is easy to check for an
overflow situation before it occurs.
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:43:41 2005