[PATCH]: Proof-of-concept for dynamic format checking

Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Wed Aug 17 19:25:00 GMT 2005


Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> * Ian Lance Taylor:
> 
> > I haven't tried to flesh this out any further.  I'd be curious to hear
> > how people react to it.
> 
> Can't we just use some inline function written in plain C to check the
> arguments and execute it at compile time using constant folding etc.?

I don't really see how that could work and still do what we want it to
do.  Could you give an example of what it would look like?

Ian



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