Re: .NET and buffer overruns

From: Keith Patrick (richard_keith_patrick_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:51:49 -0500

Everything I have heard is that managed code is buffer overrun-proof. Of
course, C++.Net has a flag to prevent buffer overruns, but I still hear
about overruns in XP, and I read in a post from someone at MS a year ago or
so that XP was compiled with C++.Net. I'm not familiar enough with the
mechanics, but I tend to believe that CLR is overrun-proof, since Java is
managed as well, and there haven't been any overruns with it (at least as
far as I have heard). Not sure if C++'s flag is foolproof and that the XP
code wasn't compiled with the flag set or if the facility is not 100% or
other.