Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 08:53:55PM +0000, Dibyendu Majumdar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Dennis Ritchie proposed fat pointers for C in 1990.
> 
> https://github.com/kenmartin-unix/UnixDocs/blob/master/VaribleSized_Arrays_in_C.pdf

Wow. So it took 30 years (and who knows how many buffer overflow
security holes) for people to realize that this might have been a good
idea?


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