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Re:A smaller, cheaper RISC V board by pjmlp on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:35AM (#15291281)
Bringing the joy of C unsafety related exploits to all OSes.
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Re:A smaller, cheaper RISC V board by zero_one_one on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:40AM (#15303867)
:set sarcasm

Hey, That's unfair to C! If an OS is reckless enough to give a process memory when it asks for it, it should have no business worrying about what the process does with the allocation!

In all seriousness though, the language can't be held responsible for poor programming practices.

For any insecurities resulting from c code, blame the compiler!

:)

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Re:A smaller, cheaper RISC V board by noir_lord on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:00AM (#15301932)
In fairness the landscape was very different back then.
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