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Re:OpenSSL will release a high-severity issue fix on 25th by dochtman on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:44PM (#26547648)
Match statement exhaustiveness checking is one example, especially combined with the pervasiveness of enums (instead of constants).
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Re:OpenSSL will release a high-severity issue fix on 25th by junon on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:51PM (#26547735)
Any respectable C compiler does this.
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Re:OpenSSL will release a high-severity issue fix on 25th by SubjectToChange on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:03PM (#26547897)
What C compiler has pattern matching and ADTs?
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Re:OpenSSL will release a high-severity issue fix on 25th by junon on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:07PM (#26547953)
Every C compiler these days will warn about unchecked enums in switch statements. This is, effectively, what the comment was saying.

Pattern matching has nothing to do with security or program safety.

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Re:OpenSSL will release a high-severity issue fix on 25th by sshine on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:59PM (#26547849)
Like the one OpenSSL is being compiled with?
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