[AWS] buffer overflow?

[Jacob Sparre Andersen]

Darren New wrote:

> Wouldn't the range checking in Ada prevent this sort of
> stack-smashing code from working?

In general yes.  The main problem here is probably that the
default behaviour of one of the more wide-spread Ada
compilers (GNAT) is to disable run-time checks.  IMHO this
is _very_ stupid (but I am willing to be educated about the
benefits).

Jacob
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