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I'm curious, of the bugs that could have been avoided by using a "safe" language, how many could have been avoided by using a bounds checking extension like as
by tlrobinson 10y ago
I'm curious, of the bugs that could have been avoided by using a "safe" language, how many could have been avoided by using a bounds checking extension like as https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/BoundsChecking.html https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/BoundsChecking.html or https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc
Are such extensions popular, and if not, why not? I assume there's always some performance hit, but that might not be a big deal in an HTTP client, for example.
- pjmlp 10y agoBecause they aren't portable.