From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 20 02:01:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA12977 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 02:01:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw-nl1.philips.com (gw-nl1.philips.com [192.68.44.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12972 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 02:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl1.philips.com with ESMTP id LAA29367 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 11:00:59 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from hal.mpn.cp.philips.com (hal.mpn.cp.philips.com [130.139.64.195]) by smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (8.8.5/8.6.10-1.2.2m-970826) with SMTP id LAA07218 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 11:00:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 2630 invoked by uid 666); 20 Jul 1998 08:58:47 -0000 Message-ID: <19980720105847.A2509@mpn.cp.philips.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:58:47 +0200 From: Jos Backus To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Let's close the door to "stack hacks" References: <199807171948.NAA19746@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199807171948.NAA19746@lariat.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 01:47:34PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As an aside, I believe this is one of the reasons Dan Bernstein (of qmail fame) uses his own routines to do file/char/string/memops instead of those provided by libc. Cheers, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/ _/ _/ Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message