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Removed from an earlier version of this article, becuase it 'sounds like Cyclone advocacy':

Various techniques have been used to make buffer overflows in C programs less likely. Cyclone is a modified version of the C programming language which uses type information and run time checks to reduce the likelihood of buffer overflows and other memory corruption issues. Systems such as stackguard provide protection against the most common techniques for exploiting buffer overflows by checking that the stack has not been altered when a function returns.


Why remove the Cyclone reference, and not the stackguard reference? Why remove either? It is only mild advocacy at worst (my interest is only as a potential Cyclone user, for the reasons stated above) and is directly releveant to the topic. -- The Anome