i wonder whether clear linux makes use of gcc stack clash protection
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Originally posted by caligula View PostC programmers will still argue that billion dollar bugs every now and then are way better than wasting 4 bytes worth of space for every array.
i've recently looked at sources of one c90 library. it had 3 strlens of same string in 5 lines of code.Last edited by pal666; 13 January 2019, 04:38 PM.
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Originally posted by hreindl View Post
there is a minor number of people which are not capable to learn something new and got triggered when they read systemd and write loud comments how bad it is while the majority is just using it or don't care at all about what is running as PID1
if someone is braindead you can explain what you like and he will not realize that it's not a large binary nor will he realize the benefits of cgroups and namespaces or even that all the bolierplate code which exists in the sysvscripts in thousands of incarnations with redundancy and different bugs across distributions and in many cases just works by luck
on a technical point you better discuss with a stone than with lowbrainers which fear when their partly understood script mess is going away they are rendered as obsolete too and the biggest idiots argue that unit files are windows-like and in that case even the stone is smarter
In some cases, that "just works by luck" doesn't apply. There was a time long ago, before SystemD was a thing, where Linux Mint 15 would not even boot on my computer, because of some init scripts that locked up the system(not sure why, I don't even have that computer anymore so I can't check), but I can tell you that Linux Mint 16 fixed it....
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Originally posted by cybertraveler View PostI personally don't think there is anything intrinsically wrong with using it.
also even its manpage lists intrinsic bugs: no error indication and funny results when called between arguments of other function call
Originally posted by cybertraveler View PostI think the most important thing is that C programmers know exactly what alloca() is and what the dangers are.
Originally posted by cybertraveler View PostJust be aware of the dangers, exercise additional caution when using them and share your wisdom about these things with your fellow man.Last edited by pal666; 13 January 2019, 04:31 PM.
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