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What about the point of gc solving the issue of your app crashing or security issues everywhere because a malformed input ends up crashibg/executing code? In th
by sanbor 9y ago
What about the point of gc solving the issue of your app crashing or security issues everywhere because a malformed input ends up crashibg/executing code? In the debian security mail list almost every week there is a path for that situation so looks like it's pretty common.
- AstralStorm 9y agoGC does not solve any kind of a crash. (In fact might cause some extra NPE or out of memory crashes.) Safe pointers do. That is a separate feature of Java from GC.
- nayuki 9y agoA precise garbage collector requires safe pointers. A precise GC allows the copy/move/compact strategy, whereas a conservative GC only allows mark-and-sweep.