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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: status of PL/I as a viable language
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Randy Brukardt wrote:
> In order to avoid dynamic allocation of commands, I put the parsed
> commands into a record type with a bunch of statically bounded strings.
> These have to be carefully handled for overflow, and there were a couple
> of obscure cases where I got it wrong. Of course, nothing bad happened,
> I just got a logged Constraint_Error and the command was aborted. (Since
> the problems all came from people trying to break in, I wasn't even
> particularly upset that they weren't served...)

So in reality it wasn't a buffer overflow as Ada caught it, while if it
had been in C you would have had a buffer overflow and possibly people
breaking in. Did I understand it correctly?

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