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by ok123456 31 days ago
This is exactly how people thought before 1995. Then everyone started "smashing the stack for fun and profit." In the end, you're trading one set of bugs (dynamic memory bugs and hard to reliably exploit) for another (overflow and easy to reliably exploit).
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Yeah, you still have to check for the limits, not just declare them. Then have fun smashing anything.