Comment on Salt Lake 2002 – not enough memory/crashes to desktop after starting errorparentComments−dhosek3yI was thinking the same. I’m guessing that originally the lack of a bounds check was for efficiency’s sake (save a CPU cycle or two) and they chose not to update it assuming people would use the newer API.−thayne3yassuming people would use the newer APIthat's a pretty bad assumption for an OS that is notorious for its backwards compatibility.
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I was thinking the same. I’m guessing that originally the lack of a bounds check was for efficiency’s sake (save a CPU cycle or two) and they chose not to update it assuming people would use the newer API.
that's a pretty bad assumption for an OS that is notorious for its backwards compatibility.