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From: pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Suggestion for the LSC compiler writers
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Date: 24 Feb 89 19:11:55 GMT
References: <1993@tank.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1993@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>The reason I don't use LSC or any other micro compiler is that there is
>a lack of protection against my out-of-range pointers overwriting some
>other storage space. 
...
>  This would be extremely trivial to do...

It's an interesting idea, but not exactly trivial to implement.  Defining
legal writing areas would be pretty complicated.  You'd probably have
to do something like TMON's heap check at every write.  This might be
too slow even for debugging purposes.

Jonathan

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