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Is it just me or has there been a recent spike in malloc / free / seg-fault bugs in production code lately? Is it possible some fixes for Meltdown and Spectre h

Is it just me or has there been a recent spike in malloc / free / seg-fault bugs in production code lately? Is it possible some fixes for Meltdown and Spectre have exposed these problems by making access more strict?

pjmlp 6y ago
The Internet has exposed them. Memory corruption in C is a well known problem since the Morris Worm, 40 years ago. What has changed is the acknowledgement that the myth that good C developers never write memory corruption code, it nothing more than that, a myth. Companies like Oracle, Apple, Google and Microsoft are now pursing other means to fix C, including hardware memory tagging on the hardware platforms that they ship.