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Re: What's the deal with C99?

Subject: Re: What's the deal with C99?
From: Antoninus Twink
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:12:19 +0100 CET
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

On 27 Mar 2008 at 20:40, Paul Hsieh wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2:54 pm, CBFalconer <cbfalco...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Paul Hsieh wrote:
>> ... snip ...
>> > The one feature that there simply is NO controversy about at all:
>> > Memory management.  I don't think programmers could yell any louder
>> > for better support for any (practical) other feature.  (Obviously
>> > the other one is bounds checked arrays, however, that runs into
>> > practicality problems.)  Show me a document anywhere that
>> > demonstrates that the ISO C language committee gave a flying fig
>> > about memory management; that they were working towards some sort
>> > of library extensions or API enhancements to deal with the leaking,
>> > corruption and examination of memory.
>>
>> You obviously don't realize that the fundamental C technique of
>> 'taking addresses' and 'forming pointers' to things in various
>> types of storage makes such memory checking totally impossible.
>
> What the hell is your problem?

How long have you got?


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