checkedint call removal

Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 3 06:01:29 PDT 2014


On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 10:49:39 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 08/03/2014 11:15 AM, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>> because every few milliseconds an assert is triggered
>
> Right, and software does not have security holes because 
> otherwise they would obviously be exploited every few 
> milliseconds during in-house testing.

That is a totally different matter: security holes are about 
things that the programmer is _totally missing_, and someone is 
seeing and exploiting that. I don't see how that relate with the 
present discussion.

>> the colleague reading the sources is expecting that the  
>> expression must be true, without doubt.
>
> Poor guy. Do you support the claim that he might, if he 
> supports your "I don't buy this!" post introduce new assertions 
> by conjecturing they are true and then running the program for 
> a few milliseconds?

I don't grasp what you are arguing here: can you rephrase please?
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Paolo


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