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int64_t age = now - then; // UNDEFINED BEHAVIOUR if overflow! uint64_t age = now - then; // DEFINED: wraps at 2⁶⁴ Seriously, fuck C. Since this book focus

by fainpul 9mo ago

int64_t age = now - then; // UNDEFINED BEHAVIOUR if overflow! uint64_t age = now - then; // DEFINED: wraps at 2⁶⁴ Seriously, fuck C. Since this book focuses on safe, reliable, bugfree programs, why not use Rust?

UncleEntity 9mo ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say because rust didn't exist 30 years ago? Anyhoo... seems interesting. I've been trying to convince Claude to produce a verified JavaCard VM implementation, just for the hell of it, and this probably has a bunch of information to help with that.
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salawat 9mo ago
Ya gotta start somewhere, and just about every IC starts at some point with C.
- chickenimprint 9mo ago
  IC?
  - salawat 9mo ago
    Integrated Circuits.
    - chickenimprint 9mo ago
      Integrated circuits don't "start with C". What does that even mean? C is just an interchangeable language the compiler frontend parses. A microprocessor starts by executing the machine code at the reset vector. This machine code is generated by an assembler or a compiler backend. It has no idea what programming languages are.