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>Nobody will try to pull that shit again for quite some time. Watch me! (not really, but if I wanted to troll Linus, rants like that would serve as encourageme
by Kristine1975 11y ago
>Nobody will try to pull that shit again for quite some time.
Watch me! (not really, but if I wanted to troll Linus, rants like that would serve as encouragement)
Also using the compiler builtins is the most secure, most readable, least error-prone and fastest way of implementing overflow checks.
- x1024 11y agoLinus's rant is literally entirely based only on why that is wrong.
- Kristine1975 11y agoHe makes a lot of claims without backing any of them up.
- x1024 11y agoAre you saying that the claim that the new function "is nonstandard" is false?
- Kristine1975 11y agoNo, he's right about that. But it's a red herring: The Linux kernel already uses a lot of GCC-specific, i.e. nonstandard, extensions.