[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-08-20 kl. 00:33, skrev Lawrence D’Oliveiro:
> On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 6:49:24 AM UTC+12, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> The COBOL code is more lines. For one reason: everything need to be
>> declared with a type. You may not like that, but I think that the
>> COBOL programmers like that.
> 
> And it’s worse than that. COBOL’s fixed-length strings open up a whole new potential avenue of vulnerabilities, in the form of buffer-overflow attacks.

You clearly doesn't have a clue. Cobols fixed lenght strings *prevents*
buffer overflow issues such as can bee seen in other languages that has
null-terminated "strings".