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Comment by pjmlp

19 hours ago

Quite strange indeed, given that was one of the main points on their security conference a few months ago.

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vsgherzi  19 hours ago

I can only imagine that

1. it’s to performance sensitive

Or

2. The os is so darn large it’s hard to recompile everything

  • kenferry  12 hours ago

    I worked at Apple for a long time. The OS gets fully recompiled regularly.

    A simultaneous total world build is relatively rare (is that needed here?), but it does happen. Sometimes new compiler versions or features need this.

    • vsgherzi  10 hours ago

      Hm that leaves more questions for me. Why does this path not have bounds checking, is think perhaps a limit of the clang flag or is it more simply a mistake of omission on apples part. Either way it seems like a bad look. I wish we’d get a post mortem