On 2022-03-31 03:25, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Yes, range checking carries a performance penalty, and there have been arguments in the past about performance versus safety. I'm in the camp that believes that they should be enabled in any program where incorrect output would cause a problem or where there are security issues.
An overrun is dangerous, since it can result in other data being destroyed
without warning, and if those corrupted data are then used or printed, the results will be wrong -- again without warning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
