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Glibc change exposing bugs

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 15, 2010 16:43 UTC (Mon) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Glibc change exposing bugs by neilbrown
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

Too late!

And memcpy should also be named as mem_unsafe_copy, but yes if you tell developers to use safe function by default and to optimize only when they can show benchmarks that the optimisation will make a difference, then yes, you'd get probably better software (if a bit slower).


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