Subj : Re: US White House urges devs to dump C and C++
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Mar 01 2024 11:44 am

  Re: Re: US White House urges devs to dump C and C++
  By: Digital Man to tenser on Fri Mar 01 2024 10:56 am

 >> code that appears to work for _years_ can suddenly stop doing so when you
 >> update a point revision of your compiler. It's madness.

 DM> It's also the reason so many commercial and open source "linters" (static
 DM> analyzers) and run-time analysis tools exist today (primarily, for use
 DM> with C and C++ projects) - detecting undefined behavior, security issues.
 DM> The unsafety of C and C++ have kept a lot of people busy for a lot of
 DM> years. :-)

 DM> I've definitely seen what you're describing though - hey this worked
 DM> before I upgraded the tools, it must be a bug in the tools! <sigh> It's
 DM> almost never a bug in the tools. :-(

Years ago I was working on a C++ project where sometimes we'd update to a newer version of the compiler, and a bug in a section of the code would start showing up.  It was obvious to me it was a bug in the code, and I wondered how it seemed to work fine when we were using the previous version of the compiler.

Nightfox
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