Re: [MacPerl] Byte Compiler for MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 10.56 -0400 1998.08.12, Strider wrote:
>I've also never heard of a buffer overflow in Perl, since things don't seem
>to work that way, but what about the C code it generates? Can it be
>configured to use nsprintf and such?

There are buffer overflows in all perls before 5.004 (well, there is a
patch for 5.003, IIRC).

    http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-97.17.sperl.html

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