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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,32a9c4641bed19de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Preben Randhol Subject: Re: FY Ammo: Study about Security Bugs Date: 1999/11/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 553244767 References: <81k5oi$44k$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 943610349 11605 129.241.83.82 (26 Nov 1999 09:59:09 GMT) Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Nov 1999 09:59:09 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-26T09:59:09+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar writes: [...] | There are two reasons for this | | 1. If checks are on, out of range subscripts will be caught | by exceptions. Which pragmas do one have to set to turn the checks on (if not by default). Looked at the Annex L in RM, but it didn't make it clearer. | 2. Even if checks are off, the kind of low level programming | approaches used in C (memcpy for example) are typically not used | in Ada, so it is far less likely that Ada code would be | susceptible to such attacks. I see. Thanks! -- Preben Randhol "Marriage is when you get to keep [randhol@pvv.org] your girl and don't have to give [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] her back to her parents." (Eric, 6)