Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:20:52 -0800

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:43:34 GMT, Randy Howard
<randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> wrote:

> In article <opsmvxoje1zgicya@hyrrokkin>, tom@kednos.com says...
>>
>> I think we are going about this all wrong. First we create this
>> euphemism,
>> "memory safe" and its cost to justify doing a number of things in a less
>> than
>> desirable way. I would like to suggest that we consider this as a
>> mandate
>> and see where it takes you.
>
> Perhaps if all software was bounds checked, implementations of fast
> bounds checking would come about much faster, or, um, much slower.
> :-)
>
>> I have always regarded range/bounds checking and exception handling as
>> necessary and integral to well designed code.
>
> True, but implementing it specifically seems easier to do efficiently
> than implementing a generic bounds checker for J. Random Program.

It is part of PL/I.
> 

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