Re:The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array
by oersted on Friday November 29, 2024 @07:07AM
(#42273269)
Yeah it's interesting that a (relatively) small quirk in the Linux source has the "political leverage" to impact the whole C ecosystem.
I suppose C was made for Unix at Bell Labs and GCC is also inextricably tied, you could say that C is first and foremost the language of Linux, fair enough.
Re:The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array
by nine_k on Friday November 29, 2024 @10:52AM
(#42274657)
I suspect that the problem is a problem in many code bases, but only a hugely important project like Linux has the leverage to try and have it addressed at the ecosystem level.
I suppose C was made for Unix at Bell Labs and GCC is also inextricably tied, you could say that C is first and foremost the language of Linux, fair enough.