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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-16 14:41:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.voicenet.com!nntp.upenn.edu!msunews!not-for-mail From: Ben Pfaff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Date: 16 Aug 2001 17:36:40 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Sender: blp@pfaffben.user.msu.edu Message-ID: <87r8ubvg9j.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu> References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kbvsr$a02@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3B69DB35.4412459E@home.com> <3B6F312F.DA4E178E@home.com> <23lok9.ioi.ln@10.0.0.2> <3B70AB15.35845A98@home.com> <3B721FF5.B7D854F6@home.com> <3B7BC847.61D7EF55@home.com> <3B7BCEC4.202A3FA@cfmu.eurocontrol.int> <3B7C0397.3AD029C6@home.com> <3B7C0F90.EC31384B@sensor.com> <3B7C3016.9D6085A@home.com> <87vgjnvh9v.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu> Reply-To: pfaffben@msu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: pm335-21.dialip.mich.net X-AUTHid: pfaffben X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12016 comp.lang.c:74839 comp.lang.c++:83240 Date: 2001-08-16T17:36:40-04:00 List-Id: Karthik Gurusamy writes: > If I have > char title[] = "hello world!"; > > Is sizeof title guaranteed to be 13 (strlen("hello world!) + > 1)? Yes. > Can it ever happen sizeof title is more than 13? No.