From: Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:24:44 -0700
> If CERT is to maintain its reputation, it needs to do better. The warning > is misdirected in any case; given the very large number of compilers that > these coding practices cause trouble for, you need to focus on the bad > coding practices, not on unfair demonization of new GCC releases. In my opinion CERT's advisory has been nothing but an unfair FUD campaign on compilers, and GCC specifically, and has seriously devalued CERT's advisories, in general, which were already of low value to begin with. It looks similar to a news article run by a newspaper that is losing money and has no real news to write about, but yet they have to write about something. The worst part of this fiasco is that GCCs reputation has been unfairly harmed in one way or another, and there is nothing CERT can do to rectify the damage they've caused.
