Re: A Famous Security Bug

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 23/03/2024 07:26, James Kuyper wrote:
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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On 22/03/2024 17:14, James Kuyper wrote:

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If you want to tell a system not only what a program must do, but
also how it must do it, you need to use a lower-level language than
C.

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Which one?

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That's up to you.  The point is, C is NOT that language.

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I'm asking which /mainstream/ HLL is lower level than C. So
specifically ruling out assembly.
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If there is no such choice, then this is the problem:  it has to be C
or nothing.

If it has to be C or nothing, then it's nothing.  Some people might
not like that, but that's the way it is.