Comment by nitrogen
12 years ago
Look at the man page for alloca(). Stack-allocated strings are more dangerous in the face of overflow than heap-allocated strings.
12 years ago
Look at the man page for alloca(). Stack-allocated strings are more dangerous in the face of overflow than heap-allocated strings.
Well I did not mean that the strings are literally on the call stack. You can make your own stack (and it doesn't have to be a stack, just have the same semantics).