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'Forgive me, but when I program I know what memory I allocated, whether they are accessed within their proper bounds, and whether they are all deallocated prope
by yawaramin 6y ago
'Forgive me, but when I program I know what memory I allocated, whether they are accessed within their proper bounds, and whether they are all deallocated properly.'
Meanwhile: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
'Percentage of memory safety issues has been hovering at 70 percent for the past 12 years.'
And this is not just Microsoft–it's a pretty consistent finding across industry, that when programming in C/C++, memory safety issues make up around 65% to 70% of all issues.
What this tells us is that people in general can't guarantee the safety of their code, but an automated checker can.