Comment by TickleSteve
10 years ago
not denying there are issues... just saying that C isn't the only widespread language with issues. at least C's problems are widely known.
10 years ago
not denying there are issues... just saying that C isn't the only widespread language with issues. at least C's problems are widely known.
The Potzrebie car isn't the only car with issues. At least the Potzrebie's doors-falling-off problem is widely known.
If the compiler writers union decides that the spec allows for 'format hard drive off on signed overflow' we can always change the spec to 'don't format hard drive on signed overflow'
It's not that simple. The compiler writers have caused security issues before in the Linux kernel. And the compiler writers are right: the undefined behavior that they exploit exists for important performance-related reasons.
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