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Not using the heap != everything is allocated on the stack. In situations where you want to avoid dynamic allocation, memory for most things that would otherwis

Not using the heap != everything is allocated on the stack. In situations where you want to avoid dynamic allocation, memory for most things that would otherwise have been dynamically allocated ends up being statically allocated at compile time.

sigjuice 10y ago
Absolutely none of this is immune to buffer overflows.
- usefulcat 10y ago
  No, but you're a lot more likely to be able to overwrite the return address via a stack-based buffer overflow, and that is generally a much more serious kind of attack.