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They are mostly reliable (though probably still full of security holes) despite C—made possible by the millions of person-hours thrown at the problem of maintai
by pshc 10y ago
They are mostly reliable (though probably still full of security holes) despite C—made possible by the millions of person-hours thrown at the problem of maintaining large C codebases.
Back then, we had no choice. We can do better.
- DanWaterworth 10y agoEssentially all but the most used code-paths with be bug riddled. This paper [1] on finding bugs in C compilers by fuzzing is an interesting case-study. [1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4241 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4241