Re: Poll: global buffers

From: Ron Cole (rcole@ezy.net)
Date: 07/20/01


>So far I'm hearing for/against from various people but not a lot of "why"
>yet.

Best reason is probably security and potential bugs.  I'd hate for immortal
chatter to accidentally slip into some new mortal command...  Also, not a
real good reason, but buffer overflows on the globals tend to wipe out the
stack making them harder to debug.

Ron

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