Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Re:Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus by pmelendez on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @06:08PM (#10262044)

> Obvious, since those systems pre-dated PDP-11 hardware.

Well, I was actually referring to the equivalent running on PDP-11 (like Algol68)

> Have you ever coded C before ANSI C was approved?

>It was only portable to UNIX itself, just like those other OSes and their systems programming languages.

I meant machine portability. Before C, to have a lower level like performance you needed to use machine-specific assembly.

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Re:Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus by pjmlp on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:17AM (#10263431)

C compilers generated so bad code that games only started using it in home computers instead of Assembly during the mid-90's.

On workstations and mainframes there was hardly any difference to other heigher level system programming languages. In fact C prevented many compiler optimizations due to its aliasing and decay of arrays into pointers.

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Re:Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus by moomin on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @04:00AM (#10263825)

Amazing how few people remember that Fortran compilers always outperformed C compilers in the "bad old days".

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