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From: info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
    service attack.
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 14:03:40 GMT
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> wrote:

> compiler. Remember, "printf" actually has to stop and interpret the input string
> to look for replacements.

No, it doesn't; not unless the format string isn't a constant.

Richard