Re: A Famous Security Bug

Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:

On 24/03/2024 16:45, Tim Rentsch wrote:
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The C standard means what the ISO C group thinks it means.
They are the ultimate and sole authority.  Any discussion about what
the C standard requires that ignores that or pretends otherwise is
a meaningless exercise.

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An intentionalist.

That is a misunderstanding of what I said.

But when a text has come about by a process of argument, negotation
and compromise and votes, is that postion so easy to defend as it
might appear to be for a simpler text?

It's not a position, it's an observation.  The ISO C committee is
the recognized authority for judgment about the meaning of the C
standard.  Whatever discussion may have gone into writing the
document is irrelevant;  all that matters is that the ISO C
group went through the approved ISO process, and hence the world
at large defers to their view as being authoritative on the
question of how to read the text of the standard.