The Stratus recommendations for structure marking would be a bit harder to defeat. Here's an excerpt from an old Stratus presentation[0] on writing robust soft

The Stratus recommendations for structure marking would be a bit harder to defeat. Here's an excerpt from an old Stratus presentation[0] on writing robust software. Add TYPE, SIZE, VERSION, and OWNER to data structure TYPE: Unique number for each different structure SIZE: in bytes VERSION: Changed whenever structure declaration changes OWNER: Unique ID of owner, must be independent of structure contents; can be UID, least significant bits of clock, etc. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170303065858/http://ftp.stratus.com/vos/doc/papers/RobustProgramming.ps https://web.archive.org/web/20170303065858/http://ftp.stratu...