[Cryptography] bounded pointers in C

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Apr 19 03:58:07 EDT 2014


On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Bill Stewart wrote:

> I'm skeptical - one of the attractions of C is being able to write 
> constructs like
>         while (*output++ = *input++) ;

If you were working for me and wrote code like that, you would receive 
your first (and only) warning.  Spell it out, and make it clear; this is 
crypto-programming, after all, not kiddie-programming.

-- Dave


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