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Re:"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where... by rini17 on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @04:33AM (#40438705)
It is totally possible for pointers with bounds checking to exist in C. Turbo C did that 30 years ago. However, why bother trying when whole culture is biased against it and you can use any of the other languages?
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Re:"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where... by akoboldfrying on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @05:05AM (#40438917)
>Turbo C did that 30 years ago.

I used Turbo C++ (not C) back in the day, and recall near pointers, far pointers, based pointers, but I don't recall bounds-checked pointers. Do you remember any details?

>However, why bother trying

Because it would immediately make the large amounts of C code still in the wild safer for the users, who do care?

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Re:"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where... by rini17 on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:05PM (#40443355)
I remember it as an compiler otion.
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