Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by TillE on Sunday June 18, 2023 @02:03PM (#36382654)

I remember having a similar argument with someone saying that your C code has to compile and work on every platform that exists, including weird CPUs with known bugs.

Unless you're working on something like the Linux kernel, that's an imaginary problem.

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Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software by lmm on Sunday June 18, 2023 @06:46PM (#36385319)

"Newer versions of the compiler build your code with security vulnerabilities" is a very real problem in C. E.g. since x86_64 has no aligned memory access instructions, a lot of programmers assume there's nothing wrong with doing unaligned memory accesses, but actually recent gcc/clang will happily compile those into RCE vulnerabilities.

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