Re:GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs
by pjmlp on Monday September 19, 2022 @02:24AM
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What is driving people away from C and C++ are the CVE's that keep being the same for the last 40 years, despite everyone repeating that one only needs to be good enough developer and use the tools to avoid them.
The abuse of UB is the way how those 1980's C and C++ compilers that generated lousy code easly outperformed by Assembly coders on 8 and 16 bit home computers, finally improved their code generation quality due to the lack of strong type information for the compiler.
So where we are, trying to escape bad decisions from the past.
The abuse of UB is the way how those 1980's C and C++ compilers that generated lousy code easly outperformed by Assembly coders on 8 and 16 bit home computers, finally improved their code generation quality due to the lack of strong type information for the compiler.
So where we are, trying to escape bad decisions from the past.