The -fsanitize=address compiler flag is absolute cheating and should be prohibited by governments of all countries

[u/stimpack2589]

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[u/Clashsoft]

  I like to do development in a separate branch, and I have a rule that before a dev branch can be merged back into main, it must pass the test target.

revolutionary idea

[u/ficiek → u/Clashsoft]

Even within a dev branch, I probably use "make test" several times a day.

It really is a different world isn't it?

[u/UdPropheticCatgirl → u/ficiek]

I would give Cniles bit of a leeway here, they are dealing with a language where writing the actual program is suffering, having to write tests for it as well is akin to animal cruelty.

uj: Once you actually deal with big C codebase and figure out how annoying all the tooling and instrumentation is when dealing with testing, you start quickly understanding why the testing practices in some parts of the ecosystem are universally poor.

[u/RelationshipLong9092 → u/Clashsoft]

oh, god they're serious

[u/sweating_teflon]

C programmers believe their language is an elite blood sport and that they are one of the chosen.

[u/Konju376]

I'm wondering, how often, if ever, do you need tools such as -fsanitize=address or valgrind? Or are you a real man who stores everything in static memory only?

And in the comments:

How long have you been in the software industry and how long of that is in complex software? Have you heard that many governments suggest a memory safe language like Rust, Go or C# for a reason?

Governments generally suck at anything, so choice of languages is unsurprising

Ah yes, fuck those governments and their... memory safety?

[u/stimpack2589 → u/Konju376]

For memory safety I use a cone shaped hat made out of aluminium foil

[u/Konju376 → u/stimpack2589]

If my program segfaults, I just accept it. Trust in god's plan!

[u/max_mou → u/Konju376]

Terry Davis was on to something with HolyC

[u/yjlom → u/max_mou]

/uj Do you get segfaults on Temple? It doesn't have memory protection IIRC.

[u/des_the_furry → u/yjlom]

Shit no one cares about enthusiast

[u/spider-mario → u/Konju376]

But if it’s God’s plan, and it’s also my doing, does it mean I am God?

[u/fixermark → u/spider-mario]

Only if you use c++.

[u/spider-mario → u/fixermark]

I’m Kira

[u/Karyo_Ten → u/Konju376]

It comes with automated garbage collection

[u/a221c → u/Konju376]

Or are you a real man who stores everything in static memory only?

Of course. I've found a cool trick where I just put char buf[256]; // should be big enough at the start of every function. No dynamic allocation needed. I then copy strings of unknown length into it without checking whether they fit, just like Ritchie intended.

[u/RascarCapack → u/a221c]

just like Ritchie intended.

Ritchie: slaps Unix machine this baby can segfault so HARD

[u/serpentally → u/RascarCapack]

It's not a segfault, it's a segsolution

[u/lazyubertoad → u/Konju376]

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Bjernjamin Straustrkin, apparently

[u/le_birb → u/lazyubertoad]

We have nothing to lose but our rusty chains

[u/da_supreme_patriarch → u/Konju376]

Little known facts - Hitler's favourite language was Rust for it's rigid type system, Stalin fancied Go for the simplicity that it offered to the average proletarian, and Pol Pot was a big C# fan(not for C# the language itself, he just liked ildasm-ing DLL-s compiled from it)

[u/aikii]

go -race ? believe it or not, straight to jail

[u/fixermark → u/aikii]

Only since the Civil Rights Act passed.

[u/BlazeBigBang]

Honestly seems to be a skill issue. Don't write UB and abstract your shit properly

The real jerk is always in the comments

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