[AWS] buffer overflow ??

[Pascal Obry]

Darren,

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

Yes.

 > code from working? I can see where something like this could raise an 
 > exception, and where if your code doesn't handle exceptions well it 
 > could crash the server, 

No it won't crash the server. All exceptions raised while processing a
request/response are properly handled by AWS. At worst, the connection
between the client and the server will be closed.

Pascal.

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