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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by nyanpasu64 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:00AM (#33517300)
Sadly C and C++ have aliasing rules, so casting a pointer to another type is often UB instead of having the underlying memory take the form of the new type.
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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by HPsquared on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:30AM (#33518065)
Hence it can flow, or it can crash!
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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by yakubin on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:25AM (#33520762)
Or it can just give someone root.
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