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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by iso-8859-1 on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:56PM (#14754828)
Bounds checking is not customary because it is more work. It is more work because arrays in C degrade to pointers, which do not know their length. This is because C was designed on a PDP-7 with 8k RAM. Original Pascal had only fixed size arrays/strings and it was a problem.

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