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Re: You cant engineer away buffer overflows without a cost

"As you say bounds checking has a cost and quite honestly it is so small it is barely worth caring about."

Well that depends doesn't it. If its the core of some gigabit ethernet driver or some realtime code on an embedded low power device then a few extra cycles really does matter.

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