Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities
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Re: Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities

From: Bryan Olson <fakeaddress@nowhere.org>
Date: Wed May 25 2005 - 05:31:15 CEST

Andrew Reilly wrote:
> Bryan Olson wrote:
>> Back in the day, there were other reasons; chief
>>among them, as we used to say, [C] combines the flexibility of
>>assembly language with the power of assembly language.
>
> Not true: it has the (IMO huge) advantage over assembly language of
> avoiding all of the tedious and error-prone manual register allocation
> process.

Don't forget C's "register" storage modifier. The old line was
mostly supposed to be funny, but that's the kind of thing it was
talking about.

-- 
--Bryan
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:38:29 2005