[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <4b0209e1$0$274$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
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> Dynamic memory allocation does not prevent buffer overflow.
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> Checking available length does.
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> I fact there are many more buffer overflows in C than in Fortran.

Is there a metric for that or just a wild guess ?
Probably people do things in C that you won't even try in Fortran.
I guess that most buffer overflows arise from programmers being
too lazy to use dynamic allocation, using fixed length buffers.