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by bertit 3511 days ago
Well, it is blaming someone who does not know how to use its tools. If I had writen a blog post aboug how I spent one day trying to fix a leak and then discovered that I always had to call free() after malloc(); would it still be victim blaming than blame me for not knowing the basic of C?

> The alignment bug here is such an example.

It is not since it allows vectorisation. The error was to assume that what one writes in C translates directly to assembly.