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> I mostly care about this issue because of the security issues that arise (overflow is somewhere around #4 or #5 on the list of top root causes of security iss
by pcwalton 10y ago
> I mostly care about this issue because of the security issues that arise (overflow is somewhere around #4 or #5 on the list of top root causes of security issues)
How many of those overflow issues crucially have to be combined with memory safety problems to be weaponizable? I suspect the ratio is over 95%.
- jerf 10y agoI do also care about the correctness issues. It's hard to write correct software on top of a foundation that will happily tell you that 130 + 130 = 4. There's a fundamental mismatch between what people think the operation means, and what it really means, and that's never a good thing.
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