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Ken Thompson once made a similar point about compilers and trust but in terms of security: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Reflections
by declanhaigh 3y ago
Ken Thompson once made a similar point about compilers and trust but in terms of security:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
- mrweasel 3y agoAdding to the security part, there are also situations where compilers will optimize something, only to introduce security issues, hence the need to functions such as explicit_bzero (https://man.openbsd.org/explicit_bzero https://man.openbsd.org/explicit_bzero).
- pests 3y agoHalf of Linus rants are just about compiler bugs .