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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: C bug of the day
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 21:26:33 +0200
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> 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.

I think the part of the GNAT run-time library that is written in C
still contains several buffer overflow errors.

Furthermore, there are some cases in which GNAT generates code which
allocates too little space for objects. 8-(