On Sat, 12 May 2018 21:42:13 -0500, Python wrote: > Responding to this further would essentially just require me to > reiterate what I already wrote--I won't do that. I'll simply maintain > that in my rather lenghty experience, this mistake has actually been > rather rare and has to my knowledge *never* caused a support issue > requiring a bug fix to production code in projects I've been associated > with. It's a useful construction whose detriment has, IMO, been > completely overblown.
I already linked to the attempt to install a backdoor in the Linux kernel with this, but even for accidental errors, thirty seconds on the CVE database finds at least one real-world example: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2009-4633/ I expect that these days it will be rare, since most C compilers would default to warning about it if you run with warnings enabled. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
