• steeznson@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    UB is only one class of error though. I get nervous when people talk about re-writing battle hardened code which has been used - and reviewed by the community - for decades because there are going to be many subtleties and edge cases which are not immediately apparent for any developer attempting a re-implementation.

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      1 month ago

      Like sudo that has had zero days lurking for 10 years?

      I’m not advocating for reimplementing stuff for no good reason though.

    • Auli@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      You mean old code that has bugs that are no just being discovered. Battle hardened code and many eyeballs means nothing.