On Oct 1, 2002 at 10:47, q u a s i wrote:
At 02:39 even 9/30/02 -0700, Satya wrote:
Classic buffer overflow. Say you have[...]:
buffer over flow is defined as when you feed more data than the buffer has
[free] capacity for. Due to the C legacy which does not do bound checking
for array writes this may lead to to bad places. Agreed. But when you
malloc you allocate /limited/ memory too. There is /no/ way to prevent you
from overflowing an allocated buffer if you so wish.
I guess I should say that dynamic memory allocation, by definition,
allows you to allocate as much memory as you need at runtime.
>[..C for dummies example]
Haven't read that. It's a fairly obvious example.
inefficient. Someone else can have a say on this
maybe. For truly
flexible storage a linked lists of buffers may be more the way to go.
Like for a text editor? Yeah, and you're still mallocing the structs.
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