Re: Denial of denial of service

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: Denial of denial of service
Date: 11:41 on 01 Feb 2007

* blah blah <qwerty1602@xxxxx.xxx> [2007-02-01 01:55]:
> I'm hating the fact that in BSTR's, the pointer points to the
> first character, while the four bytes indicating length exist
> *before* the pointer, _as well as_ the whole string being
> NULL-terminated.
> 
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms221069.aspx

Ah, "fucked strings" as Spolsky calls them, with a bunch more
craziness layered on top.

Hate is the price of retaining compatibility to hateful legacy.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;

There's stuff above here

blah blah 00:52 on 01 Feb 2007
- A. Pagaltzis 11:41 on 01 Feb 2007
Aaron J. Grier 19:34 on 06 Feb 2007

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