guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) (09/25/84)
Allocating a buffer via malloc() and writing outside the buffer areas can cause program crashes on ALL systems. It's only the total absence of memory protection on the PC that makes the system crash together with the user program. (From an experienced C programmer :-) -- Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam guido @ mcvax