[jolux]

The thing is, "do what thou wilt" is clearly indefensible as an engineering standard, and I doubt you would disagree. So yes, I can't force anyone to write tests.

However, I do want to see programming as a culture adopt a higher standard when it comes to checking their work, and I think the continued prevalence of bugs like this are an indicator that we actually need to do so. I'm not asking for NSA-proof because that's not reasonable. But memory safety is a solved problem, and we need to be putting in the legwork to make more of our stack memory safe.