Re:So you think you know C?
by yitchelle on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:49PM
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Indeed. If you contrast it against other engineering disciplines, even a closely related one like hardware engineering or FPGA engineering, the mindset is totally different. The amount of checks, reviews and many other practices is astounding.
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... which is even more surprising given that many of these practices (in software) are almost-free. Granted, there aren't compile-time guarantees for most of these things, but with ASAN/UBSAN/etc. you'll certainly find the top 90% of your problems pretty fast.