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by xorblurb
3397 days ago
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I'm still unsure of the rate at which this could be a solution to leverage checked C++ library types, and whether in the precise case of the Cloudfare issue this would be applicable. However I still think that in most case if you must handle out-of-bound conditions from a checked language outputting to an unchecked one, you just emit your checking code yourself... Also the C++ standard is 1500 pages long. I prefer to avoid knowing that as a backend language when I can... |
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Which C programmers keep failing to do, regularly, according to the CVE database.
> Also the C++ standard is 1500 pages long. I prefer to avoid knowing that as a backend language when I can...
Which includes the libraries that C lacks.
ANSI C + POSIX isn't much shorter than that.