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> The cost of that has been literally billions of dollars in losses due to buffer overflows over the decades. How much, do you think, would rewriting all exist

by usrnm 2y ago

> The cost of that has been literally billions of dollars in losses due to buffer overflows over the decades. How much, do you think, would rewriting all existing C code cost?

junon 2y ago
Nothing, if new standards are opted in via a #pragma.
- eru 2y ago
  I'm not sure that's this easy, because of the copy-and-paste nature of C's "libraries" via pre-processor #include directives.
  - junon 2y ago
    Not really. We already have `#pragma once` which is per-file, not per-translation-unit.
lisper 2y ago
Why do you think that would be necessary?
- usrnm 2y ago
  It's the only way to really solve the problem. Simply creating a safer alternative won't help, they already exist. The real problem is the vast ocean of already existing critical unsafe code
candiodari 2y ago
The whole reason C code is used is that it can be used for free. In other words, infinitely more than they're spending now. More than even the CCP is willing to spend to protect state secrets.