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Re:My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup’s Recent Memory Safety Comm... by pjmlp on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:50AM (#34638379)
Plenty of C++ developers still mix up delete versus delete[].
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Re:My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup’s Recent Memory Safety Comm... by olliej on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:18AM (#34638618)
Which is my point: the type system doesn't distinguish T* (a single object) T* (an array of objects), so delete vs delete[] only shows up as runtime heap corruption that may or may not eagerly terminate or lead to RCE.
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