On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll investigate integrating gsl-lite into m-c.
Thank you. On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> wrote: > mozilla::pkix::Input/Reader will never throw an exception or abort the > process; instead it always returns an explicit success/failure result. It > seems GSL will either abort or throw an exception in many situations. Since > aborting is terrible and exceptions are not allowed in Gecko code, it seems > Input/Reader is safer. For uses where bound checks are merely a seat belt to avoid remote code execution or memory disclosure vulnerabilities in case of a programming error, aborting the process in probably better than asking the caller to have error handling code that hopefully never runs. (Out-of-bounds access of slices on the Rust side of FFI panics anyway.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
