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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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
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"Mike Smith" <smithmc@michaelsmithHATESSPAM.org> wrote in message news:<tmfvrpmb575l80@corp.supernews.com>...
> "raj" <israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> news:ppsemtojqkqsqpfvj1th3mae8b4vu1tg89@4ax.com...
> >
> > The buffer overflow occurs because of an old and well known bug in the
> > C libraries.
> 
> The buffer overflow occurs because of a bug in the *Microsoft* C library.
> This is not endemic to C or C++ in general.  And, what, no one has ever
> found a bug in Ada?


Sounds like Mike is not familiar with Ada. Of course Ada does not
guarantee freedom from bugs, but for many reasons it does tend to
eliminate obvious goofs like buffer overruns, which are indeed
"endemic" to C and C++ in that these languages do not provide any
help for avoiding such bugs, and as we know these buffer overrun
bugs have time and time again proved weak spots in code written
in C/C++.