On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 08:42:22AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > But if you want an example of a very nasty bug caused by C/C++ > multiple assignment, there was a well-documented attempt to slip a > privilege escalation into the Linux kernel based on this a few years > ago. > > It's very easy to argue against multiple assignment. It's less easy > to argue against implementing an equivalent of the C/C++ > conditional.
Are you talking about this one? http://lwn.net/Articles/57135/ Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
