Re: variable lenght strings

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>]

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Pascal Obry wrote:
> > This kind of recursivity is very dangerous and could cause a stack
> > overflow.
> 
> Why is it dangerous? Won't Ada just raise a memory exception?

Because the object is on the stack. This is not a problem of memory but of
stack space. A program using too much stack will likely got out of stack
space and receive a Program_Error exception. There is no much you can do at
this point, in many cases the only solution is to exit-as-soon-as-possible!

Such program is creating a security hole anyway... if you know that somebody
has used such algorithm just send him (file upload on a Web site for example)
a file with a very long line!

Pascal.

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