Re:Git's list of banned C functions
by Someone on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:07PM
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Pascal compilers of the time when Pascal was popular typically had a switch that disabled range checks for speed reasons.
Such a system would effectively remove that feature. Yes, you could disable range checks when indexing into a string, but you still would have to figure out how many length bytes there are. That would only be a little bit faster than a full range check.
Because of that, I don’t see how that would have been useful at the time.
Such a system would effectively remove that feature. Yes, you could disable range checks when indexing into a string, but you still would have to figure out how many length bytes there are. That would only be a little bit faster than a full range check.
Because of that, I don’t see how that would have been useful at the time.