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david2ndaccount
on Oct 9, 2023
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My personal C coding style as of late 2023
Arguments to sizeof aren’t actually evaluated (except for variably-modified-types, AKA VLAs, but don’t use those).
uecker
on Oct 9, 2023
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Please use those. They are useful, make code clearer, improve bounds checking, ...
Don't let attackers influence the size of a buffer (neither for VLAs nor for heap allocations).
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