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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by gpawl on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:26AM (#13808650)
Indeed, the next standard should ban such things, and modern compilers should reject these patterns by default, unless a --legacy_security_unsage flag is set.
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by WalterBright on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:37AM (#13808686)
Perhaps the switch should be named:

   --accept_my_buggy_stupid_code
so nobody is going to type that in by accident, and nobody is going to want to defend it in the code review process. And the compiler vendor will still get a gold star for being 100% language compliant :-)
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