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Re:Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadc... by pmontra on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:22PM (#14861281)
They are a pointer and an offset with no validation of bounds. But that's OK: C is little more than a high level assembly.
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Re:Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadc... by armitron on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @08:21PM (#14861607)
I hate the term "high level assembly" when applied to C since it's loaded against assembly (in the sense of C as its superset) which is obviously not true.

C is full of undefined behavior, assembly is not.

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Re:Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadc... by pmontra on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:00AM (#14863893)
High level != Superset

Actually we often give up features and specialize with high level languages. That's why there are things easier to do in Ruby than in C++ and vice versa.

They are all (usually much more convenient) subsets of assembly.

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Re:Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in Broadc... by antoinealb on Thursday July 27, 2017 @08:52AM (#14864773)
What ? Assembly has undefined behavior, for example wrt unaligned access on some processors.
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