From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: Beginer problem: variable array size
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:32:22 -0400
Date: 2002-09-23T16:32:22-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1032813018.257332@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ajKj9.188815$Jo.66253@rwcrnsc53
tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> I agree there's a big difference between a program with a literal
> numeric constant as a limit and a program that adapts to the resources
> available, and the latter is normally better. But the former at least
> documents clearly what the limit is.
Does it really? That may be the case for the toy program presented
here. But what happens when this style of programming is used as a
piece of a large project? If the buffer overlow problems so often
reported have taught us anything, it's that programmers guess sizes
incorrectly. Of course an Ada program wouldn't actually overflow its
buffers, but it would fail to process its input correctly - either by
ignoring some of it, or by reporting errors and not processing it at
all.
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-15 14:53 Beginer problem: variable array size Nacho
2002-09-15 16:45 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-15 16:16 ` Nacho
2002-09-15 16:26 ` Ludovic Brenta
2002-09-15 17:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-09-15 18:27 ` Pascal Obry
2002-09-15 20:03 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-17 14:22 ` Ted Dennison
2002-09-18 11:53 ` Marin David Condic
2002-10-02 15:08 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-03 12:17 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-19 0:43 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-19 1:25 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-09-19 14:17 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-20 3:06 ` Munch
2002-09-20 4:49 ` Jim Rogers
2002-09-20 6:35 ` tmoran
2002-09-20 16:00 ` Pat Rogers
2002-09-20 16:07 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-20 20:15 ` Pat Rogers
2002-09-20 12:11 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-20 13:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-20 14:55 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-20 16:10 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-20 16:31 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-24 12:41 ` Thomas Dickey
2002-09-21 10:44 ` Thomas Dickey
2002-09-23 13:37 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-22 13:00 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-26 3:37 ` Kevin Cline
2002-09-26 12:42 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-22 12:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-20 16:28 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-20 17:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-21 7:30 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-23 13:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-22 3:34 ` Ted Dennison
2002-09-22 13:18 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-24 16:55 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-25 12:06 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-21 22:23 ` tmoran
2002-09-23 13:53 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-23 15:19 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-23 16:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-23 17:09 ` tmoran
2002-09-23 18:18 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-23 19:53 ` tmoran
2002-09-23 20:32 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2002-09-23 20:10 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-09-23 23:09 ` tmoran
2002-09-24 2:33 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-09-24 12:36 ` Marin David Condic
2002-10-02 15:13 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-09-19 20:25 ` Brian Gaffney
2002-09-17 10:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-10-02 15:04 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-02 16:26 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-02 19:53 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-03 12:31 ` Marin David Condic
2002-10-03 15:15 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-21 23:38 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-22 14:11 ` Matthew Heaney
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