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Language misfeatureLanguage misfeaturePosted Jun 23, 2011 4:18 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: Language misfeature by dgm Parent article: A hole in crypt_blowfish This "miss-feature" is only troublesome when you start to do arithmetic with chars, which most library functions do not. Not just arithmetic. Even indexing an array with a char value will bite the unwary.
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Language misfeature Posted Jun 23, 2011 8:48 UTC (Thu) by kris.shannon (subscriber, #45828) [Link]
Array indexing is pointer arithmetic
Language misfeature Posted Jun 23, 2011 12:13 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
I assume you mean comparing the value of characters, taken as numbers. That's arithmetic too.
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