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code feedback ...code feedback ...Posted Jan 25, 2012 20:34 UTC (Wed) by droundy (subscriber, #4559)In reply to: code feedback ... by bronson Parent article: Ensuring data reaches disk
I prefer to avoid putting buffers on the stack simply to reduce the difficulties associated with buffer overflows. Not for security reasons (most of my programming is scientific), but simply so overwriting the buffer won't trash the stack, making debugging harder. And also to allow valgrind to immediately recognize a buffer overwrite...
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