From: "Michael Stewart" <mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ? array[n] or array[n+1] ?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:03:33 +0100
Organization: Customer of Planet Online
Message-ID: <7hfenm$k6m$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>
References: <37367f71 DOT 6271443 AT news DOT wanadoo DOT fr> <3736A098 DOT 55E268BE AT softhome DOT net> <373c0195 DOT 3902906 AT news DOT wanadoo DOT fr> <3737f542 DOT 0 AT nnrp1 DOT news DOT uk DOT psi DOT net> <3739F455 DOT 1818FDD7 AT unb DOT ca> <373a1915 DOT 3102234 AT noticias DOT iies DOT es>
NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-78.bromine.dialup.pol.co.uk
X-Trace: news4.svr.pol.co.uk 926629430 20694 62.136.17.78 (13 May 1999 21:03:50 GMT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 May 1999 21:03:50 GMT
X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
Lines: 25
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes> wrote in message
news:373a1915 DOT 3102234 AT noticias DOT iies DOT es...
> El día Wed, 12 May 1999 17:36:21 -0400, Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
> escribió:
>
> >Outcome #3:  Something terrible might happen.  Worst case scenario (never
known
> >anyone it has happened to, but it's possible): overwriting some buffered
portion
> >of a hard-drive or memory mapped io could desroy data or hardware.
>
> Hardware? You must be joking.

This could happen. older monitors could be damaged if you tried to push
their capabilities to far. If you overwrite part of the BIOS you could
render it unuseable (take a look at what the Chernobyl virus does)

--
Michael Stewart
www.freeserve.co.uk
mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk
"Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you!"