Re: [Lit.] Buffer overruns

From: Brian Inglis (Brian.Inglis_at_SystematicSW.Invalid)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:43:15 GMT

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:23:07 -0800 in alt.folklore.computers, "Tom
Linden" <tom@kednos.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:54:53 GMT, Brian Inglis
><Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.Invalid> wrote:
>
>> It's the design that does the encapsulation; the implementation just
>> supports that encapsulation of the design.
>> C (or assembler) supports just as much encapsulation as any other
>> language; most languages nowadays are compiled or interpreted by C
>> code, and they all end up as assembler generated or executed.
>
>
>You are mistaken. That is not true for any IBM compilers or for those
>on VMS, and none of these pass through assembly as has been common in
>the Unix world, they generate machine code. In fact none of these are
>even written in C.

For IBM, replace C by PL/S; for VMS, replace C by BLISS; replace
assembler by machine code; same stuff, different representation. 

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