From: Arthur Krewat <krewat@kilonet.net>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: Happy birthday Morris worm
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:49:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d8d9933-1213-3f07-02e0-f3ad5c293de4@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191112224151.GA36336@fuz.su>
On 11/12/2019 5:41 PM, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> Oh please no. One of the things we've hopefully all learned from Pascal
> is that length-prefixed strings suck because you can't perform anything
> useful without copying the entire string. Rob Pike and friends showed
> how to get strings and vectors right in the Go language where you have a
> builtin slice type which is essentially a structure
>
> struct slice(type) {
> type *data;
> size_t len, cap;
> };
And none of that stops some programmer from doing slice.cap=255 - or is
it read-only? ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-12 20:56 [TUHS] " Norman Wilson
2019-11-12 22:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 22:10 ` [TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: " Bakul Shah
2019-11-12 22:14 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-12 22:41 ` Robert Clausecker
2019-11-12 22:49 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2019-11-12 23:45 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-13 0:38 ` Warren Toomey
2019-11-13 1:09 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-13 0:24 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-12 22:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 23:22 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-12 23:27 ` Arthur Krewat
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.20.1911191443530.10845@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2019-11-21 20:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-21 20:38 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-21 21:04 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-21 22:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-21 21:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-11-13 7:35 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2019-11-13 18:02 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday Morris worm [ really programming education ] Jon Steinhart
2019-11-13 18:49 ` Tyler Adams
2019-11-13 19:15 ` [TUHS] #defines and enums ron
2019-11-13 21:11 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-13 21:22 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday Morris worm [ really programming education ] Chet Ramey
2019-11-15 22:49 ` Adam Thornton
2019-11-15 23:59 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-12 22:39 [TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: Happy birthday Morris worm Norman Wilson
2019-11-13 1:43 ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-21 13:10 ` William Cheswick
2019-11-21 18:04 ` Steve Johnson
2019-11-21 21:51 ` John P. Linderman
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