[AWS] buffer overflow?

[Ted Dennison]

Pascal Obry wrote:

>Jacob,
>
> > 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).
>
>That would be very stupid if this was true ! Please check the documentation,
>only one check (number overflow) is off by default.
>  
>
My (admittidly ancient) Gnat user guide for version 3.13p contains the 
following:

    For most operating systems, |gcc| does not perform stack overflow
    checking by default.

If that has been changed, I'm quite glad to hear it.


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