Typical security issues in C++: why the GC isn't your enemy

[deadalnix]

On Tuesday, 6 December 2022 at 10:03:24 UTC, Arjan wrote:
> On Monday, 5 December 2022 at 23:58:58 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 12/5/22 20:57, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Default initialization does not even fix all initialization 
>> issues, it just makes them reproducible. Anyway, I think 
>> neither default initialization nor uninitialized variables are 
>> the right solution, but you kind of have to do it this way 
>> given how scoping works in C++ and in D.
>
> Now I'm curious, what, in you opinion, would be best for 
> initialization?
> How is C++/D scoping limiting in this?

Compiler can do control flow analysis, so they can force you to 
initialize things before you use them. This is the right solution 
to that problem.