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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