For those of working on any windows app, if possible, as an experiment put your app through some memory leak detection software (like Purify etc). I'm sure you'll be as shocked as I was to see how many OS level buffer overflows are happening at any given time. There's so many of them that it makes sense, from a cost perspective, why MS simply fixes the ones that matter as they come up.
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For those of working on any windows app, if possible, as an experiment put your app through some memory leak detection software (like Purify etc). I'm sure you'll be as shocked as I was to see how many OS level buffer overflows are happening at any given time. There's so many of them that it makes sense, from a cost perspective, why MS simply fixes the ones that matter as they come up.