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Re:We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible by kylieee on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:58PM (#35527881)
They will instead crash because of an uncaught exception or a panic handler - end result is the same.
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Re:We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible by GaggiX on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:45PM (#35528531)
By removing segmentation fault crash you have removed a large portion of unwanted crashes, the end result is very different.
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Re:We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible by kylieee on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:48PM (#35528581)
But the crashes doesn't get removed, they get transformed into error types or exceptions and you still crash when you don't handle them.
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Re:We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible by GaggiX on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:53PM (#35528650)
This is only true if the language does not employ static analysis.
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