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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:34:19
Message-Id: 20200429033358.254e05bc@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead? by lego12239@yandex.ru
1 On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:57:47 +0300
2 lego12239@××××××.ru wrote:
3
4 > You have lost faith in people ;-).
5
6 Only Torvalds can write Segfault free code.
7
8 Everyone else tries hard, and eventually get beaten into submission by
9 GCC and UB.
10
11 ( Yes, I'm being a little hyperbolic, but the test of time has shown
12 how hard it is to write safe code in C even by those who seem to know
13 what they're doing. And that's not just segfaults, but non-failing
14 exploits by breaking memory buffers. Heartbleed for example. You
15 really gotta ask yourself how many significant vulnerabilities out
16 there take root from the fact they're implemented in C somewhere, and C
17 gave you no compiler safety insurance )

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