On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:39:51PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:29:52PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > > I've never understood people who are religious about that. It's the > > same amount of effort whether you do it when you first write the if, > > or when you add something to it (ie, minimal). The only difference I > > see is that if you _don't_ later add something to the if, you've > > wasted that effort. > > Why bother protecting against buffer overflows? It takes longer to > code, and if nobody ever manages to overflow the buffer, you've wasted > that effort.
I just typed out a couple of paragraphs to answer that, before I realised you were being sarcastic! :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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