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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Substrings as argument to procedures/functions
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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