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| From | Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: A Famous Security Bug |
| Date | 2024-03-22 16:30 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <875xxdzvxj.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> (permalink) |
| References | <bug-20240320191736@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <20240320114218.151@kylheku.com> <20240321211306.779b21d126e122556c34a346@gmail.moc> <utkea9$31sr2$1@dont-email.me> <utktul$35ng8$1@dont-email.me> |
bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 22/03/2024 17:14, James Kuyper wrote:
[...]
>> If you want to tell a system not only what a program must do, but
>> also how it must do it, you need to use a lower-level language than
>> C.
>
> Which one?
Good question.
> I don't think anyone seriously wants to switch to assembly for the
> sort of tasks they want to use C for.
Agreed. What some people seem to be looking for is a language that's
about as portable as C, but where every language construct is required
to result in generated code that performs the specified operation.
There's a lot of handwaving in that description. "C without
optimization", maybe?
I'm not aware that any such language exists, at least in the mainstream
(and I've looked at a *lot* of programming languages). I conclude that
there just isn't enough demand for that kind of thing.
[...]
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */
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