[Cryptography] The GOTO Squirrel! [was GOTO Considered Harmful]
Nicolas Rachinsky
crypto-2 at ml.turing-complete.org
Tue Mar 4 07:23:02 EST 2014
* Bear <bear at sonic.net> [2014-03-03 11:04 -0800]:
> On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 17:03 -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>
>
> >
> > A pretty-printer (or any IDE that reflows indentation) would point it out.
> >
> > So would a modern IDE that identifies unreachable code.
> >
> > Any practical code-coverage testing would reveal it too.
>
> Okay, I have to say this despite the complaints on this
> list about how common TERRIBLE security practices may be.
>
> This is completely over the top. There is no way that this
> could possibly be accidental.
>
> In point of fact, I know of no commonly used or commercially
> sold compiler that fails to emit unreachable-code warnings
> by default. Therefore I do not believe that this could be
> anything but deliberate. I would be willing to state exactly
> that in a court of law.
Ho about gcc?
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-05/msg00360.html
|The -Wunreachable-code has been removed, because it was unstable:
|it relied on the optimizer, and so different versions of gcc would
|warn about different code. The compiler still accepts and ignores
|the command line option so that existing Makefiles are not broken.
|In some future release the option will be removed entirely.
Nicolas
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