Re: The value of knowing reverse engineering

[Chad Loder <dailydave () loder us>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:41:49PM +0000, Matt Hargett wrote:
> > Oh come on!
> >
> > gcc devotes 99% of its time figuring out how to eat invalid and nonstandard
> > code.
>
> WTF does that have to do with them dealing with *code generation* bugs 
> in a timely fashion?

Them who? I thought this thread was about gcc, a software program.  I
wasn't talking about the maintainers. I'm sure they are nice people.

> Also, what in the world would warrant you making such an overtly 
> aggressive response?

You thought that was aggressive? Sheesh. Maybe I've been hanging out
with OpenBSD people for too long and my aggression meter is out of
whack. :)

> I personally thing TreeSSA is really cool and the inter-procedural tracking
> in 4.1 is also pretty nifty. Has anyone looked at the API to see how it
> would accomodate a simple statistical static checker and put Coverity and
> Fortify out of business?

I'm not denying that gcc has lots of cool and nifty features.  I guess
my point was that this is part of the problem.