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Re:Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly 'sus' sysctl in the... by inetknght on Thursday January 23, 2025 @09:10PM (#42809920)
A well-configured C++ compiler will error-out on such a silent conversion.
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Re:Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly 'sus' sysctl in the... by kccqzy on Thursday January 23, 2025 @09:23PM (#42809969)
The C++ compiler is required to perform this silent conversion according to the standard: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/implicit_conversi...
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