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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by im3w1l on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:58AM (#13808943)
> C/C++ is memory safe if you turn on dynamic checking.

Is anyone here doing this? Would be interesting to hear your experience.

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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by jhasse on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @03:31AM (#13809055)
If valgrind counts, then yes.
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by kzrdude on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @08:41AM (#13810191)
I'll count valgrind if your program always runs in valgrind. Otherwise it doesn't protect you dynamically.
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Re:Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over ... by jhasse on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @05:40AM (#13809485)
That means CI runs unit tests etc. via

    valgrind --quiet --leak-check=full --error-exitcode=1 *binary*
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