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I'm not 100% confident, but I'm pretty sure the author does not care if you think they're incompetent. The author's skill and apparent interest is in explaining
by zrail 12y ago
I'm not 100% confident, but I'm pretty sure the author does not care if you think they're incompetent. The author's skill and apparent interest is in explaining an inherently difficult concept (reverse engineering a complied executable) in a way that won't cause their audience (not you) to tune out and/or go running for the hills.
Could they adjust the snippet? Sure. Will it add anything to the essay to do so? Nope.
- EpicEng 12y agoEh... I'm not really buying it. I think it was an honest mistake. C'mon; this makes that snippet harder to read? char input[SIZE]; I really don't think so. I'm all for simplifying example code to get the core concept across, but I wouldn't go as far as to invoke undefined behavior. I also don't understand the use of scanf. At all. A seasoned, competent C user would never consider using scanf. Anyway, I didn't mean to derail things too much here. It's really a nitpick and has little to do with the article itself.