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The X Security BugThe X Security BugPosted Feb 15, 2010 7:55 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: The X Security Bug by wahern Parent article: A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World (CACM)
Er, you're not saying that *this* sort of bug is the obvious downside to
treating functions as first-class objects? 'cos you only get a bug like this if you treat functions like *integers*, which is self-evidently nuts from a practical POV, and only emerges from C because of the loony way it indicates that a pointer is null (0 indeed!).
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