quasi, The point in replying to your mail was to suggest other alternatives. My suggestions were 1. Standard libraries (eg. Boost) --> if possible to use 2. If not --> use design methodologies eg. given is a simple scanf implementation in windows crt
-shailesh --- q u a s i <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:57 even 10/2/02 -0700, S...lesh wrote: > >[...]At the same time, acknowledge the issues involved. > > eh? /Those/ issues where not the point of discussion. > > >flexible storage v/s buffer overflow: > >[...] > >you r right in saying buffer overflow stems up from > >predicted size of input.. but ur programming logic > should take care of > >reading only as much as you can and rejecting the rest. > > which I have already mentioned in great detail. So why > repeat the same point? > > >In windoz CRT 'passing': > >[...]and passing it in to user passed pointer! > > agreeably I have not done any windows programming. These > above explained > details are new to be but slightly irrelevant as we are > not discussing > /particular/ systems. > > >hope that clarifies, > > It does not clarify what your point is. The matter was > clear enough to me > earlier [except, the details of your example]. > > My original reaction was towards the insinuation by Satya > that fixed arrays > are dangerous and the reason being buffer overflows. My > reply, though > travelling in a roundabout way, said the same thing that > you did. I did > not reply to your earlier mail because I felt we both had > the same > point. The linked buffers example I gave was ad-hock and > was to support my > argument. I never claimed it is even a good solution. > My exact statement > "For truly flexible storage a linked lists of buffers may > be more the way > to go." - which is true enough. > > Hope that /this/ clarifies your [mis]understandings. > > > > consider me a dummy > >ok. > > thanks. a good Samaritan, thou. > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
