Clive Page wrote:
> A couple of times recently I have been thwarted in what I want to do by
> Fortran95's lack of flexibility in the character type. I'm aware that the
> strings of C/C++ are even worse - a high proportion of hacker attacks and
> internet insecurities seem to have C buffer overflows as the root cause,
Well - *that* will be solved when gcc-3.0 finally hits the archives
(probably by the end of the year). This release will include support
for "bounded pointers", which will make this exploit a thing of the
past.
Of course, we Fortraners don't need such a difficult hack - we can just
use array/substring bounds checking :-)
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