On Tue, 6 May 2008, tetetest tetetest wrote:

>> Hypothetically, what is the worst that could happen if we just do the cast
>> and one of the krb libs *does* touch the buffer?
>
> A SIGSEGV. :) Compiler can place const data into read-only memory page, so
> any attempt to modify it will result in access violation.

Right, but that would require us to use constant data in the first place and I
don't see this happening. We pass in a buffer in memory that we fill with data
in an earlier function.

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