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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 14:55:03 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Array index history
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> I find it interesting that there are now a slew of testing programs (Valgrind, Address Sanitizer, Purify, etc) that will add the ‘missing’
> array bounds checking for C.

And nothing prevents a C compiler from doing bounds checking, it's just not obliged to.   There are C compilers that will allow you to enable such checks for debugging purposes.