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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Introductory Presentations, especially aimed at C++ programmers!
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:08:03 -0800
Date: 2016-12-07T16:08:03-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f7b5llo.fsf@nightsong.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: o2a6vq$q8s$1@dont-email.me

> exponentially better than being prevented from overflowing a buffer is
> being able to figure out how to do
> declare
>    B : Buffer (1 .. Just_The_Right_Size);

Alternatively the buffer could be dynamically sized according to the
data.  That's not in the Ada spirit because of the possible OOM and
memory allocation latency getting in the way of embedded realtime
applications, but for a workstation app it's perfectly workable.
Horses for courses.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-08  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10 12:24 Introductory Presentations, especially aimed at C++ programmers! John McCabe
2009-07-10 21:49 ` jimmaureenrogers
2009-07-10 23:37   ` wwilson
2009-07-11  0:07     ` jimmaureenrogers
2009-07-12  4:00       ` wwilson
2009-07-11  8:15 ` Stephen Leake
2009-07-15  6:43 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2016-12-07 17:06 ` john
2016-12-07 17:44   ` Luke A. Guest
2016-12-07 18:35     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-07 23:03       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-07 23:47         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-08  0:08           ` Paul Rubin [this message]
2016-12-09 22:01             ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-09 22:18               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-13  0:53                 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-13  3:21                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-13 21:15                     ` Robert A Duff
2016-12-13 22:05                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-13 22:52                         ` Robert A Duff
2016-12-14  0:02                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-13 23:05                         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-14  0:13                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-14 22:48                             ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-15  0:00                               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-15 10:46                                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-12-16  7:37                                   ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-15 20:14                                 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-12-15 20:27                                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-15 21:04                                     ` Niklas Holsti
2016-12-15 21:40                                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-16  7:41                                     ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-13 22:50                     ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-14  0:08                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-14  1:01                         ` Shark8
2016-12-08  8:08           ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-12-08  8:38             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-12-08 10:25             ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-08 13:39               ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-12-09  1:30                 ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-09  8:31                   ` J-P. Rosen
2016-12-09  8:58                     ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-09  9:18                       ` J-P. Rosen
2016-12-09  9:27                         ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-09 10:49                           ` J-P. Rosen
2016-12-09 19:58                             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-09  8:35                   ` G.B.
2016-12-09  8:57                     ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-09 22:15                     ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-09 21:58           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-08  8:23     ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-12-08 18:54   ` Adam Jensen
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