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Which is a problem for developers who simply want to write code without having to reason about whether it’s safe to dereference something, and without having to
by ovao 8y ago
Which is a problem for developers who simply want to write code without having to reason about whether it’s safe to dereference something, and without having to worry about a simple oversight resulting in the programmatic equivalent of summoning Cthulhu.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y ago>a problem for developers who simply want to write code without having to reason Still not seeing the problem. Pointers aren’t magic and aren’t hard.
- pertymcpert 8y agoOh boy, trying to debug some miscompile because of a subtlety in aliasing rules would make me disagree.
- ovao 8y agoPointers, conceptually speaking, are not hard. Pointers, in practice, are hard. Even C-family compilers cannot safely reason about them in many (most) cases.