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>> Looks like it’s a format string bug, which is rarely seen nowadays. This strongly suggests that the author has not interacted with any real software for the
by ryanlol 5y ago
>> Looks like it’s a format string bug, which is rarely seen nowadays.
This strongly suggests that the author has not interacted with any real software for the period of time they’d call “nowadays”
In what universe are format string bugs rare?
- olliej 5y agoThey’ve been compiler warnings for a decade+ at this point
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoBut not on-by-default compiler warnings. Any new warning with an existing code base generally won't get turned on, because fixing all the bugs it reveals and suppressing false positives would take nonzero effort.