Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: VMS Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:44:25 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <20250723084425.00007d9e@gmail.com> References: <20250625093213.00002ec2@gmail.com> <20250625094418.00007fd2@gmail.com> <105iv02$3cuhr$2@dont-email.me> <20250721091242.00007573@gmail.com> <20250721133148.00007cc6@gmail.com> <105pv2t$77mv$1@dont-email.me> <20250723080407.00004a8a@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:44:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d1fddc984b9daff4cec7569e2db0c386"; logging-data="1023999"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19shUN15Y7otGF7I+GbqePv4Sm8qzZMk6s=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:aoBVGBm9Bc/Fyi6dBCapBfYyhRM= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69856 On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:04:07 -0700 John Ames wrote: > but so does designing algorithms such that bounds violations can > never happen (e.g. #define BUFFER_BOUND and then loop from 0 to > BUFFER_BOUND - if there's no other indexing, it will never go off the > end, unless the compiler is just broken,) where possible. (And, as if it needed saying, where one can be certain that some ape won't come along later and meddle with it - but nothing is truly proof against Future Ape Maintenance.)