From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5bc4be576204aa20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Buffer overflow Article - CACM References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1c4ef.1412$s14.1390@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:55:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.181.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1131990909 67.3.181.49 (Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:55:09 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:55:09 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6379 Date: 2005-11-14T17:55:09+00:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > > That's probably true now but there are loads of examples where running > _Ada83_ on 68020/68040 with checks-on was too slow. No doubt. However, I've been using Ada since 1984 and have never encountered a case where the checks made the difference between success and failure in meeting timing requirements. -- Jeff Carter "C++ is like giving an AK-47 to a monk, shooting him full of crack and letting him loose in a mall and expecting him to balance your checking account 'when he has the time.'" Drew Olbrich 52