Comment by pjmlp
7 years ago
That is true, my point was that for C and C++ that is not clear at all.
You cannot simply search for & and * regarding point operations because those are also valid numeric operators, thus with context dependent meaning.
Being able to search for PEEK/POKE, SYSTEM.PUT/SYSTEM.GET, or just unsafe blocks makes all the difference tracking down unsafe code.
Also note that unsafe code blocks is older than C almost for 10 years, as ESPOL/NEWP already had such feature in 1961.
> You cannot simply search
Which is one of the reasons why in the modern world (of fast CPUs and large RAM) code should be edited using editors that "understand" the language's syntax.