Re: [ooc-compiler] Unsafe pointers on the stack

[Isaac G. <ig...@ya...>]

--- August Karlstrom <fus...@co...> wrote:
> If I compile and run the following program I get a segmentation fault
> rather that a run time exception.
> 
>     MODULE Test;
>        PROCEDURE P;
>           VAR p: POINTER TO ARRAY OF LONGINT;
>        BEGIN
>           p[0] := 1
>        END P;
>     BEGIN
>        P
>     END Test.
> 
> So in this regard the above program compiled with OOC is just as
> unsafe as a C program. Wasn't the elimination of wild pointers one of
> the design criteria of Oberon?

fyi XDS Oberon-2 gives 2 compile-time warnings
5:7 possibly used before definition "p"
5:8 NIL dereference


		
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