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Re: Garbage Collection & Secure Programming

by zer (Deacon)
on May 02, 2006 at 15:04 UTC ( [id://546920]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Garbage Collection & Secure Programming

Perl doesnt have the buffer overflow problem because it automaticly resizes arrays for the data. C is known for these overflows because of the low level memory access that it is capable of. Here are some articles on the topic:

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