Floating point rounding modes: we should restrict them slightly
Don
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Tue Sep 15 02:45:32 PDT 2009
Walter Bright wrote:
> Brad Roberts wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> strlen() is safe, while strcpy() and printf() are not.
>>
>> You sure? Does running beyond the bounds of the array if there's no null
>> termination count as safe some how? :)
>
> Yes. Memory safety is defined as being free of memory corruption errors.
> Simply reading memory out of bounds does not corrupt memory.
It does result in undefined behaviour, though. I don't see much
difference. (Corrupting memory is a problem only because you read it
again afterwards...)
> Note that it is ok for a memory safe program to generate a seg fault.
It'd be OK if it was guaranteed to generate a seg fault. But I don't
think that's true here.
>
> printf() is not memory safe because of the %n format.
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