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Re:Teaching Compilers Backward by CalChris on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @04:51PM (#26243366)
Moreover, buggy parsing code is massive security hole.
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Re:Teaching Compilers Backward by hctaw on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:19PM (#26244393)
well anything that takes untrusted input that might need to be validated with parsing is a massive security hole. Parsing generators don't fix this class of bug, they just change how it manifests.
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Re:Teaching Compilers Backward by tester756 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:02PM (#26243492)
why?
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