From: mjsilva@scriptoriumdesigns.com
Subject: Re: Watch out Ada, here comes the new and "safe" C language
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:48:05 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-06-27T08:48:05-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5ba53ef-a1fa-4f3d-a9b8-d5f451e732ef@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wcczk7pwyy2.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 2:22:29 PM UTC-7, Robert A Duff wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber <w...com> writes:
>
> > "Aiming" is the key word... According to the blog, the unsafe string
> > manipulation functions are still part of the standard -- making it a
> > matter of programmer discipline to avoid using them in favor of the
> > newer "safer" routines.
>
> Yeah, but it's worse than that. Compiler warnings could remind people
> to use the "safer" versions, but the "safer" routines aren't really
> safe, because the programmer is responsible for keeping track of the
> array length, and passing it in calls.
Well sure, because all the evidence shows that humans are much better at such housekeeping than computers are. I thought everybody knew that.
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2012-06-26 12:15 Watch out Ada, here comes the new and "safe" C language Nasser M. Abbasi
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2012-06-26 21:22 ` Robert A Duff
2012-06-27 15:48 ` mjsilva [this message]
2012-06-27 17:08 ` gautier_niouzes
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