On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 07:15:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/8/2023 8:31 PM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
Yes, they are not baked into the ISO language standard.
They can't be because the C semantics make it impossible.
It's impractical to have this in the ISO standard, but surely not
On Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 09:44:27 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Bounds checking in the Linux kernel is done by
https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/kfence.html or
Being sampling based, this is not good enough.
I disagree. KFENCE is actually a perfect fit for what is needed
for the Linux
On Saturday, 7 January 2023 at 22:25:30 UTC, areYouSureAboutThat
wrote:
Well, the worlds most widely used source code revision control
system, is written in C ;-)
There are attempts to rewrite it in safer programming languages
;-) Such as https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide
Let's see if the
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 03:18:27 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 02:15:27 UTC, areYouSureAboutThat
wrote:
C is not just a programming language anymore. It's a complete
(and very diverse) ecosystem.
No progress has been made for decades but that doesn't mean
progress
On Saturday, 21 January 2023 at 04:29:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Robert thinks Rust has won that game. We're the second person
to the moon.
Do you mean second to last? The safety offered by D language
currently only looks good when compared to C/C++, but is worse
than pretty much any of the
On Monday, 30 January 2023 at 02:44:50 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
if you put your code in directories that match the modules you
want to import,
there's no need for Dub and the corresponding poorly documented
configuration.
What is poorly documented? Can you suggest some documentation
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 03:54:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Buffer overflows are trivial to have in C, and C has no
mechanism to prevent them.
ASAN, Valgrind, Clang Static Analyzer and plenty of other tools
are the practical mechanisms to prevent buffer overflows. Yes,
they are not baked
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 06:34:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 04:31:48 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka
ASAN, Valgrind, Clang Static Analyzer and plenty of other
tools are the practical mechanisms to prevent buffer
overflows. Yes, they are not baked into the ISO language
On Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 15:08:05 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
1) Missing `scope` storage class specifiers on `delegate`
function arguments. This can be chalked down as a beginner
error, but also one that is easy to miss. If you didn't know:
without `scope` the compiler cannot be sure that
