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|    Hans-Peter Diettrich to All    |
|    Re: Bounds checking, Optimization techni    |
|    05 May 19 20:44:35    |
      From: DrDiettrich1@netscape.net              Am 05.05.2019 um 12:14 schrieb Bart:              > But how do they get there? Take this:       >       > int A[10], *p;       > p = &A[3];       >       > You intend p to refer to the 4-element slice A[3..6], but how does the       > language know that? How can it stop code from writing to p[5]?              Not pointers are bad, but pointer arithmetic is. It should be allowed       only with objects of known bounds.              DoDi       [In this case the bounds look known to me. -John]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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