On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Russell Nelson wrote:
I've seen Dan Bernstein (and you don't get much
more careful or paranoid about security than Dan) write code like
this:
static char line[999];
len = 0;
len += fmt_ulong(line + len,rp);
len += fmt_str(line + len, , );
len += fmt_ulong(line + len,lp);
Steven M. Bellovin writes:
That's not new, either. I believe it was Tony Hoare who likened this
to sailors doing shore drills with life preservers, but leaving them
home when they went to sea. I think he said that in the 1970s; he said
this in his Turing Award lecture:
The
