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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63e8a95e8331225 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-24 11:49:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!router1.news.adelphia.net!router2.news.adelphia.net!news2.news.adelphia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ed Falis Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Partial Hardware Protection for Buffer Overrun Exploits Message-ID: <20030424144841.7fa97f9e.falis@adelphia.net> References: <3EA41F8E.8030305@cogeco.ca> <20030422171827.6fb01e6d.falis@adelphia.net> <20030424094805.1cb53bd1.falis@adelphia.net> Organization: Ada Core Technologies X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:49:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.53.11.222 X-Complaints-To: abuse@adelphia.net X-Trace: news2.news.adelphia.net 1051210180 24.53.11.222 (Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:49:40 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:49:40 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36500 Date: 2003-04-24T18:49:40+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:42:51 -0500 "Randy Brukardt" wrote: > One can argue about what exactly consistutes an Ada compiler, but I > know Janus/Ada was out long before there even was an 80286, and we had > competitors at that time. I think validation was the definition, and it wasn't arguable. - Ed