From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Format string bugs & race conditions
Date: 16 Oct 2004 09:26:15 -0400
Date: 2004-10-16T09:26:15-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.4.1097933684.10401.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c2f5137.0410160128.7ef88436@posting.google.com>
onsbomma@hotmail.com (Hans Van den Eynden) writes:
> In C/C++ there is a major problem with "Format string bugs" & "race
> conditions". Can this appear in ada??? and if soo how??
I'll take a wild guess at the problems you mean.
"Format string bugs"; I'll assume you mean the format strings in
printf and similar functions. No, that doesn't happen in standard Ada.
You can, of course, write your own functions that have such bugs.
"race conditions"; this is a general term for problems that arise when
independent threads or processes are not properly synchronized. Yes,
that can happen in Ada, but since the Ada language defines threads, it
is eaiser to avoid race conditions.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-16 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-16 9:28 Format string bugs & race conditions Hans Van den Eynden
2004-10-16 13:26 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2004-10-16 15:09 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-16 17:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-17 5:28 ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-10-17 9:14 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-17 19:18 ` Benjamin Ketcham
2004-10-17 22:41 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-18 7:57 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2004-10-19 16:20 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-17 12:28 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-17 17:28 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-17 17:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-18 0:24 ` Jeffrey Carter
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