[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <hdtjsp$jpu$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
	m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
> In article <4b0209e1$0$274$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> 
>> Dynamic memory allocation does not prevent buffer overflow.
>> 
>> Checking available length does.
>> 
>> I fact there are many more buffer overflows in C than in Fortran.
> 
> Is there a metric for that or just a wild guess ?

Just a wild guess.  I was fixing "buffer overflows" in Fortran (and COBOL)
30 years ago, long before I mastered C.

> 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.

Or, just plain not knowing what they are doing.  30 years ago there
were a lot of people earning a living writting programs that I would
never call programmers.  The ratio is orders of magnitude higher today.

bill

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