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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 20:42:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 20:42:09 1984
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Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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Allocating a buffer via malloc() and writing outside the buffer areas
can cause program crashes on ALL systems.  It's only the total absence
of memory protection on the PC that makes the system crash together
with the user program.  (From an experienced C programmer :-)

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	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
	guido @ mcvax