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Language misfeature

Posted 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.