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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Buffer overflow Article - CACM
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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:14:11 +0100
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:03:11 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> Ada.Container.
>> They don't support safe iteration constructs "for I in X'Range loop".
> 
> Ada.Container does provide safe iteration construct, be
> suitably defining and/or suggesting what is meant by "safe".
>
> OTOH, for I in X'Range loop alone doesn't imply that
> iteration will be safe.

As you said, it depends on the definition. Clearly it isn't safe against
shelling the computer.

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