Author: Tom Likens
Date: 11:41:26 01/21/03
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On January 21, 2003 at 14:37:52, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >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 Unfortunately, the only downside to the gcc patch is that it doesn't support program's written in C++. It would be ideal if the Intel compiler added this feature with full C/C++ support. regards, --tom
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