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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:24:00 -0500
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

>...And is Ada any
> more immune than C to little Bobby Tables? (<http://xkcd.com/327/>)

Well, yeah, somewhat.  As I mentioned in another thread:

http://www.adacore.com/2010/03/22/gem-82/
http://www.adacore.com/2010/04/05/gem-83/

The second "gem" contains a reference to that very
same xkcd comic you mention above (which I found
highly amusing!).

Similar things could be done in C, but it's it's rather
more trouble.

- Bob