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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,HEADER_SPAM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b30bd69fa8f63cb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fc772,b30bd69fa8f63cb2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc772,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-03 14:36:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!not-for-mail From: "John H. Lindsay" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++.moderated Subject: Re: C bug of the day Date: 3 Jun 2003 17:38:21 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: cppmods@netlab.cs.rpi.edu Message-ID: <3EDCB5F1.566DCBF0@kingston.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: netlab.cs.rpi.edu X-Original-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:51:29 -0400 X-Submission-Address: c++-submit@netlab.cs.rpi.edu X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.lang.c++.moderated iQBVAwUAPt0VREHMCo9UcraBAQFvEgH/eGk5XpIif7dQfjvgZbz8fsJS6f0PdNM7 Rz8xzZtZ1hiyuDu3ZZSFPY2WM995RCiU7qJkqUfYv/uJIbbZH0OfSQ== =abQd Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38556 comp.lang.c++.moderated:67644 Date: 2003-06-03T17:38:21-04:00 List-Id: Hi Hyman & All: Hyman Rosen wrote: > > One of the trading systems we use in our company had been > crashing every night for a week while trying to run a > certain batch procedure. We finally traced the problem to > the usual C bugaboo, a buffer overflow. ..... Welcome to the old timer's club. Sit back and enjoy a beer while we reminisce about old machines, old problems, bugs that we tell each other that no one, and scarcely even ourselves could find, but we did in spite of it all. Don't ya just love debugging at the bit level ? John -- John H. Lindsay jDELETEUPPERCASETOREPLYlindsay@kingston.net 48 Fairway Hill Crescent, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7M 2B4. [ Send an empty e-mail to c++-help@netlab.cs.rpi.edu for info ] [ about comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: do this! ]