In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 06/27/2011
at 11:42 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>You can't win.
Not without correct coding.
>Switching to a larger screen size may result in
>buffer overrun;
Not if you allocate the buffer with the correct size and check
addresses against the end address.
>switching to a smaller screen size may result
>in display overrun.
Again, not with correct coding.
>And switching to the same size but a different shape
>(e.g. 30x80 <-> 24x100) results in garbage on the screen.
Why would you write code that detects a change in screen geometry but
doesn't check what the new geometry is?
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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