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Re: Signed int overflow behaviour in the security context
Richard Kenner wrote:
>> Oh, and teaching all of the programmers out there all the subtle nuances
>> of C and trying to get them to write proper code: good luck. That
>> simply won't happen.
>
> If people who write security-critical code in a programming language
> can't take time to learn the details of that language relevant to
> security issues (such as overflow handling),
Many of them can't, or don't...
> I think our society is in
> a great deal of trouble.
Your conclusion may well be correct. The question for this group is:
what's the best that GCC can do to serve the community/society?
-- James