[Cryptography] It's all K&R's fault

Sampo Syreeni decoy at iki.fi
Sat Apr 19 20:38:03 EDT 2014


On 2014-04-19, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:

> Or just avoid the dangerous stuff and write your own bounds-checked 
> functions in C:
>
> https://github.com/chkoreff/Fexl/blob/fresh/src/str.c#L45

Don't do either. Get an intelligent compiler for an intelligent 
language, which inserts the bound checks when needed, and optimizes them 
away when possible. Win-win.
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