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On Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:11:42 GMT M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 23/03/18 14:26, Tom via list wrote: > > https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/03/15/gcc-8-usability-improvements > > / > > > > > > soon any old fool can write code that compiles! > > Soon, *everyone* will be able to write crap code ... Someone at work still managed to write a C code snippet using "gets", buffer overflow in five lines of C, it is not enough for the compiler to warn on dodgy functions, they also need to go from the library.
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