by "winston19842005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <winston19842005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 25, 2007 at 05:15 AM
On May 25, 7:37 am, HubbleBubble <phil_simm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> C allows you to do 'dangerous
> things' with pointers like above whereas pascal and nearly all other
> languages don't, or make you jump through hoops to acheive the same
> result. I have alot more respect fo C now and though I'm a dedicated
> pascal person I can now see where the c programmers claim that its
> often easier to low level stuff in C is coming from...
>
And this is why Microsoft has to deploy so many updates and patches.
These "dangerous things" lead to exploitation - I'm sure there is
probably a Wiki about "buffer overflow". Pointers cannot do range-
checking, if they aren't associated with an array.
