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>> Or alternatively you could use the Ada language where integer overflow
>> and buffer overflows are built into the language are fully handled by
>> the compiler.
>> 
> Yeah, I will suggest my boss in our project that cost $1 000 000 to
> fire all C programmers, hire ada programmers instead of

No need to fire them, you can simply train them.

>  and rewrite
> it which will cost another $500 000.

You can do this rewrite incrementally on critical parts first/only which won't 
cost you as much and will bring incremental benefits.

Making major changes to gcc also has a significant cost.

Arno

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