From: rpolzer AT web DOT de (Rudolf Polzer)
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Subject: Re: Windows ME and DJGPP
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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> schrieb folgenden Unsinn:
> 
> > Overruns do not occur in C++ code, the STL checks everything (including
> > wrong indices of a vector). Only poor-style C++ code (or system-level code
> > which then is in C) uses C arrays, malloc and free.
> 
> Sorry, this is just blatantly false.  I've written some really heavy
> duty C++ code with C arrays, malloc, and free, and not had memory
> problems with it (nor would I consider it poor style, as I did use the
> C++ features *appropriately* for the project).  Use of STL has nothing
> to do with the C++ language; you could write a C equivalent of STL
> that has the same protection, but that would not change anything about
> the C language itself.

Perhaps I am a bit prejudiced by "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne
Stroustrup.

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