[Cryptography] Questions of taste on UDF presentation

[jamesd at echeque.com]

On 2019-02-18 02:22, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> Stop using C/C++, use Java, C# or any modern language that has array 
> bounds checking built in and 99% of the current attack vectors are shut 
> immediately.

Modern C++ has optional array bounds checking and automatic memory 
management, though the traditional collection of broken glass and razor 
blades is still present for backwards compatibility, and arrays with 
known size decay into bare pointers if you use the old idioms for 
accessing data.

If you do all your pointer arithmetic using modern idioms and spans, you 
can get array bounds checking with no runtime cost or insignificant 
runtime cost.