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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5bc4be576204aa20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!clubley From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Buffer overflow Article - CACM Date: 28 Nov 2005 06:12:19 -0600 Organization: Encompasserve Message-ID: References: <43783810.6080808@obry.net> <0f4ef.1413$s14.1261@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <5Fpif.25167$Zv5.13092@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1133179923 1449 192.135.80.34 (28 Nov 2005 12:12:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6656 Date: 2005-11-28T06:12:19-06:00 List-Id: In article <5Fpif.25167$Zv5.13092@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>, writes: > > In the case of Ada, there is no need to "redo everything." The language is > rather friendly to other languages. > Of course, with some of those other languages, you (or more accurately your Ada programs) are no longer in control if code written in that language trashes the address space allocated to your Ada code due to a programming bug. This is something that I am currently very aware of while designing a current project... Simon. -- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP Scientific Theory: A testable hypothesis that is supported by a body of evidence