Buffer overflow c/c++

The best thing to do in c/c++ is check that the indexes are with in range :

since c/c++ does not use array descriptors ( an array header with the maximum length information ) there is really no other way I can think of.

Interesting program ( I suppose this software is based on a parser that uses the C/C++ grammer that checks declarations and uses of pointers and arrays ). I guess its fine to use something like this ( if you trust the authors code :) ). You do have to run your source code through two translators per compile though , this could take extra time with large programs …..

I haven’t used the software since I’ve gotten pretty good at finding access violations after years of writing my own data structures and lots of software that uses pointers. Anything I write in C/C++ or assembly language is designed with execution speed in mind so I probably would not use anything that slows my code down ( I belive that is why C/C++ was designed without provisions to check for access violations at compile time ). Anyway , I guess the software is a clever idea and if you don’t mind the performance hit , use it ………