Re: WWW-safe Forth?

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Date	2013-07-27 22:18 -0700
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Subject	Re: WWW-safe Forth?
From	gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:52:55 PM UTC-7, The Beez wrote:
> Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
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> 
> 
> > An excellent reason to avoid using C strings and string functions in
> 
> > your secure Forth!
> 
> I'm using C strings as well - and in all the years of programming 4tH (and
> 
> making errors, fixing bugs) I've never had a runaway string. The solution
> 
> is simple: I added an extra ZERO byte beyond the end of the addressable
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> string memory (addressable by 4tH itself, not the host program), so even IF
> 
> there was a runaway string, it would stop there. Good architecture can
> 
> handle everything - but it must be part of the initial design.
> 
> 
> 
> Hans Bezemer

awesome work!!

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Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-07-09 17:09 -0400
  Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-07-09 12:02 -1000
    Re: WWW-safe Forth? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2013-07-10 23:52 +0200
      Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-07-12 03:04 -0400
        Re: WWW-safe Forth? gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2013-07-28 02:32 -0700
      Re: WWW-safe Forth? gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2013-07-27 22:18 -0700
    Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-07-12 03:31 -0400
      Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-07-11 23:03 -1000
        Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-07-14 18:15 -0400
          Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-07-14 13:50 -1000
            Re: WWW-safe Forth? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-07-15 14:12 +0000
              Re: WWW-safe Forth? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-07-15 10:22 -0700
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-07-15 17:07 +0000
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-07-17 01:12 -0700
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-07-17 09:43 +0000
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-07-17 15:04 +0200
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-07-17 13:50 +0000
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-07-15 07:57 -1000
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-07-15 22:45 -0400
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-07-15 18:21 -1000
              Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-07-15 07:52 -1000
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-07-16 16:15 +0000
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-07-16 08:17 -1000
                Re: WWW-safe Forth? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-07-17 09:33 +0000
            Re: WWW-safe Forth? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-07-15 22:40 -0400
  Re: WWW-safe Forth? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-10 03:26 -0500

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