begin quoting Joshua Penix as of Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:04:11AM -0800: > Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: [snip] > >Azureus is written in Java. It should have the same level of protection > >against buffer overruns as the Python version. > > Ah ok, I hesitated when I wrote that since I've never really dealt with > programming Java, but then remembered that Java had pointers and such so > I figured it might remain possible to code an overrun situation. :)
Er, no pointers in the *standard* version of Java. In fact, that's the sticking point for a lot of open-source types who complain about the unsuitability of Java -- it's too slow because all array accesses are checked, and there are no pointers to do pointer-aritmetic on. . . -Stewart "Can't speak for the version from Redmond, or SeeSharp" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
