Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Wed Dec 28 09:33:05 UTC 2022


On 12/27/22 23:53, Walter Bright wrote:
> This is not a failure, it's a positive feature.

To some extent. Aspects of this have been lovingly nicknamed the 
"billion dollar mistake".

> It means struct instances will *never* be in a garbage state. 

(Memory corruption.)


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