From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Substrings as argument to procedures/functions
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:16:07 -0000 (UTC)
Date: 2016-04-13T10:16:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nel697$ua5$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5271bc70-bfea-4e2f-b4e3-6c847843f5b4@googlegroups.com
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:44:01 -0700, reinkor wrote:
> Yes, I may somehow have confused index and position.
> However, there may be some security/paranoia reasons to minimize the
> information handed over to a subroutine?
Rather the reverse.
It's the absence of such information - and its consequences - that makes
buffer overflow attacks possible.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 8:25 Substrings as argument to procedures/functions reinkor
2016-04-12 9:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-12 16:55 ` reinkor
2016-04-12 18:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-13 4:44 ` reinkor
2016-04-13 7:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-13 10:16 ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2016-04-13 11:43 ` reinkor
2016-04-13 11:54 ` Pascal Obry
2016-04-13 12:30 ` Mart van de Wege
2016-04-13 12:47 ` Egil H H
2016-04-13 13:19 ` Mart van de Wege
2016-04-13 16:57 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-12 18:17 ` Robert A Duff
2016-04-12 18:34 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-13 21:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-25 15:33 ` rieachus
2016-04-25 22:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-26 6:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-04-26 18:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-13 11:22 ` G.B.
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