C语言
C语言的特色之一是：语言不负责内存边界检查，这是因为在运行时进行内存边界检查会造成性能问题，与UNIX哲学不符。此特性容易导致缓冲区溢出问题。然而，部分编译器（如英特尔编译器）会出于安全性的考量，提供方法以进行运行时内存边界检查。
别名 (计算)
For example, most implementations of the C programming language do not perform array bounds checking. One can then exploit the implementation of the programming language by the compiler and the computer architecture's assembly language conventions, to achieve aliasing effects by writing outside of the array (a type of buffer overflow). This invokes undefined behaviour according to the C language specification; however many implementations of C will show the aliasing effects described here.