On 4/8/2014 3:55 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 09:46:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/8/2014 1:47 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I never got the point of not having bounds checking in C and its ilk.
C hardly even has arrays.
Yes I know, another broken design decision.
Looking at C's decisions from our perspective is a bit unfair. The only really
unforgivable one, from the perspective of the times when it was designed, is the
one where arrays decay to pointers when passing them to functions. This
completely defeats any attempt at detecting array overflows.
