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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by kaba0 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:52AM (#25926220)
For some code, yes. What about a complete refactor of the core functionality of said program, with parallelism and the like?
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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by cheph on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:01AM (#25926290)
I misread the comment I think, but either way, I am not arguing against automated tests, I was just trying to point out that for some fragments of a code base you should absolutely be able to tell correctness by looking at it.
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