[Info-vax] Calling standards, was: Re: Byte range locking - was Re: Oracle

[Craig A. Berry]

On 11/24/16 7:06 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <o15cvh$4oj$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:

>> I don't recall whether there are any native interfaces that use .ASCIZ
>> but there are certainly MACRO programs that use it. And when coding in
>> assembler, surely null-terminated strings are the least of your worries
>> as far as accessing memory that doesn't belong to you. Which makes all
>> the dumping on C kind of silly considering a third of VMS is written in
>> a far more dangerous language. Dunno about BLISS. Maybe it's two thirds.
>
> What's more *dangerous*?

The chances that a simple mistake will have you stomping on memory that
doesn't belong to you or corrupting the stack.