On 5/8/2017 1:55 PM, John Carter wrote:
On Saturday, 6 May 2017 at 06:26:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Walter: I believe memory safety will kill C.
C/C++ has been granted an extension of life by the likes of valgrind and purify
and *-sanitizer.
I agree. But one inevitably runs into problems relying on valgrind and other
third party tools:
1. it isn't part of the language
2. it may not be available on your platform
3. somebody has to find it, install it, and integrate it into the dev/test
process
4. it's incredibly slow to run valgrind, so there are powerful tendencies to
skip it
valgrind is a stopgap measure, and has saved me much grief over the years, but
it is NOT the solution.
