Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns

From: Xcott Craver (caj_at_B-r-a-i-n-H-z.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:14:35 GMT

<jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote:
>
>But what you guys are calling a string, we called an ASCIZ string.
>ASCIZ was the mneumonic that our assembler used to create
>an ASCII string followed by a null.
  
       Well, it wasn't exactly ASCII, because 0x00 is an ASCII
       character.
   
       This is what happens when we try to make the same bytes
       represent data and metadata. C also has the same philosophy
       for functions: little-used data values are returned as error
       codes. This has its own set of drawbacks, of course.
       
                                                       -Xcott

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