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Buggifying critical core modules
Buggifying critical core modules
Posted Mar 19, 2008 19:52 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: Buggifying critical core modules by paulj
Parent article: Who maintains dpkg?
What does "that matter" mean? Usually it seems to mean "that I have". We've learned painfully, again and again, that choosing that definition leads to pain. It's easy to follow the correct rule: "in a varargs call, always pass the correct type." Doing what you know is incorrect just because it happens to work on your own hardware is little different from sabotage.
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Buggifying critical core modules
Posted Mar 22, 2008 10:19 UTC (Sat) by sandmann (subscriber, #473) [Link]
Fine, let's define "matter" as "exist". Which platforms are we worrying about?