[H-GEN] Linux related work in Bris vegas?

[Ben Martin]

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On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 13:10, Robert Brockway wrote:
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> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Andrae Muys wrote:
> 
> > Ok, now I'm confused.  Could some kind soul please explain to me how you
> > can have a const char* on the stack?  I don't think I've ever seen a
> > constant stack segment before... A POP-only stack, interesting concept ;).
> 
> It's a really bad random number generator isn't it? :)

well, depending on how historic your compiler is 

const char* timeBomb = "some nice string that works most the time";

// not in any particular location or function
char* x = <from someplace>;
strcpy( timeBomb, x );

and you cross your fingers that strlen(x) < strlen( timeBomb ) or put a
4K string after timeBomb on the stack and hope things work 'as
expected'. Its a shame that the compiler didn't hit them over the head
with a cluebat, but then again I'd have never seen the interesting
example then.

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