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Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too)
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 14:43:48 -0400
On Mon, 09 May 2005 11:22:46 PDT, Day Jay said:
I never "claimed" to be a master at c coding or being the greatest like this guy did and he *still* hardcoded his shit and he's probably still mad.
No, hardcoded would be if you removed this line of code: case 'a': addr = strtol(optarg, 0, 16); break; What he's got is called a *default value*. If you can't tell which is which, it might be a good idea to not bring it up any further. If you're going to try to insult somebody by accusing them of something (like "hardcoding"), you could either do the world a favor and make sure you understand the meaning of the accusation, or be *creative*: http://asmallvictory.net/archives/006323.html (See the entry about Florida's Senator George Smathers about half-way down). (Hints for the unclued: Try getting your code to run with a different value than '1700' without either recompiling or using a hex editor. Then get his code to run with a different value using '-a'. Then read this: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hardcoded.html and let us know when you've figured it out....)
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- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Day Jay (May 09)
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- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Micheal Espinola Jr (May 09)
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- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
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- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Day Jay (May 09)
- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Day Jay (May 09)
- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Valdis . Kletnieks (May 09)
- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) Steve Friedl (May 09)
- Re: PWCK Overflow POC Code Redhat/Suse older versions or something (maybe later too) J u a n (May 09)
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