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Malcolm: Usability improvements in GCC 8

Malcolm: Usability improvements in GCC 8

Posted Mar 16, 2018 15:01 UTC (Fri) by deater (subscriber, #11746)
Parent article: Malcolm: Usability improvements in GCC 8

There is some creepy "reflections on trusting trust" style stuff going on here.

So now I don't only have to worry about a backdoor in the compiler silently changing generated binaries, now I have to worry about the "auto-correct" auto-correcting the source to introduce subtle backdoors?

It looks like it's back to coding in raw 6502 machine language for me, I can't take the future.

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Malcolm: Usability improvements in GCC 8

Posted Mar 16, 2018 20:53 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

You must not be understanding something. Nothing here automatically changes your code. You have the optional ability to generate a patch that makes the change the compiler believes should be made, and and it is up to you to apply it.


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