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Re:The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang by golemotron on Saturday August 02, 2014 @08:05PM (#8126518)
I modded you up because clang is written in C++ and even if I didn't know this I'd suspect it because segfaults in languages that are not weakly typed (i.e., C and C++) are incredibly rare.

There are better languages to write compilers in. OCaml is one.

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Re:The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang by timshen on Saturday August 02, 2014 @09:52PM (#8126736)
I'd rather say that C++ "fixes" C's unsafe type system by making some of the castings legal, instead of safer :)
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Re:The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang by nly on Saturday August 02, 2014 @09:07PM (#8126643)
C++ probably isn't 'weakly typed', whatever that means.
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Re:The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang by yzzxy on Saturday August 02, 2014 @09:20PM (#8126672)
You probably aren't "qualified to make that statement", if you don't know what weak typing is and are too lazy to google it.
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Re:The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang by nly on Sunday August 03, 2014 @09:21AM (#8127827)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing

> In general, these terms do not have a precise definition. Rather, they tend to be used by advocates or critics of a given programming language, as a means of explaining why a given language is better or worse than alternatives.

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Re:The Following Code Causes Segfault in Clang by mateo411 on Saturday August 02, 2014 @10:34PM (#8126832)
C is weakly typed, because you can cast or set any variable to be a void *. Since C is weakly typed, then you can write a C++ program that is also weakly typed.
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