DMD 1.005 release [security concerns about ImportExpressions]

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Sat Feb 10 19:53:09 PST 2007


Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> Jeff McGlynn wrote:
>> By asking someone else to compile code for you and send back the 
>> executable.  Some services exist for compiling C/C++ on the web and 
>> this concern would prevent people from doing the same with D.
> 
> I see. This is a new scenario indeed. Given previous experience with 
> TeX, it looks like the compiler switch approach could take care of it.

The switch will be in the next update.

C/C++ doesn't really have this problem with #include, since that will 
only read files that consist of preprocessor tokens. Arbitrary files 
will not work.



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