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Re:Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf by TwoBit on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:09PM (#26306804)
The decision to use 0-terminated strings in C may be the single worst decision in programming language history, at least from a security standpoint.
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Re:Parsing can become accidentally quadratic because of sscanf by perl4ever on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:57PM (#26310608)
"in-band signaling is the root of all evil" -anonymous
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