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+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+/*
+  I used as environment the virtual machine provided here
+
+    http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis551/box.tar
+
+  This is Debian/Etch with Linux 2.6.18 with gcc 4.1.2 from 2008.
+ 
+  Some installation notes for this virtual machine under VMWare
+  are here
+
+    http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis551/project1.pdf
+
+  I run the virtial machine under MacOSX using the program 
+  VirtualBox available for free from 
+
+    https://www.virtualbox.org
+
+  The C-program I compiled the program with 
+
+    gcc -ggdb -fno-stack-protector -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
+
+ */
+
+
+void foo (char *bar)
+{
+  long my_long = 10;    // in hex: \xF2\x03\x00\x00
+  char  buffer[28];        
+
+  printf("my_long value = %lu\n", my_long);
+
+  strcpy(buffer, bar);  
+ 
+  printf("my_long value = %lu\n", my_long);
+}
+ 
+int main (int argc, char **argv)
+{
+  foo("my string is too long !!!!! ");                  // all is normal
+  foo("my string is too long !!!!! \x00\x00\x07\xE4");  // overwrites my_long
+  return 0;
+}
+