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> It's supposed to be close to the metal, and it's supposed to be small. Unless you're developing for the PDP-11, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. We
by andrewaylett 3y ago
> It's supposed to be close to the metal, and it's supposed to be small.
Unless you're developing for the PDP-11, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
We absolutely want -- and occasionally get -- safe versions of unsafe functions, like strlcpy. And we rely on quite a lot of code to maintain the appearance that C is close to the metal.