Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 11:37:52 01/21/03
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On January 21, 2003 at 12:08:08, Uri Blass wrote: >I finished the time of my evaluation of checking bounds. > >It is expensive to buy it and before deciding if to buy it I want to know about >the value of the alternatives. > >How many programmers use it? I don't, at the moment. When I have time, I will build a gcc version with bounds checking built in. For allocated memory, libary solutions may work very well. For "normal" array, to me it seems, that compiler support for bounds checking is best. Actually, I am puzzled, that compiler vendors don't do it. Over ten years ago, I worked with Fortran under VMS. The DEC Fortran compiler had a switch (VMS-language, if I recall correctly) /DEBUG=ALL, which included bounds checking. With "modern" C-compilers, it seems not easily available. No doubt, it might have very high costs at runtime. Many programmers won't care. Regrads. Dieter
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