Devon Shaw 
Matt BlazeWith the administration now recommending memory safe languages, I'm assuming the RNC platform is going to talk about preserving our god-given freedom as Americans to overwrite the stack whenever and wherever we want.
XenoPhage 
@mattblaze You'll have to pry this assembler from my cold dead hands!
Steve Bellovin@mattblaze “An unregulated memory model, being necessary for the creation of powerful systems, the right to bear pointers shall not be infringed.”
spmatich vk3spm 
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze in a secular society the right to practice multiple indirection should always be upheld.
powersoffour@SteveBellovin @mattblaze this is utterly perfect. thank you for putting this on the internet.
Adam Shostack 
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze Congress shall make no law respecting the management of memory, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
dandels@adamshostack @SteveBellovin @mattblaze The freedom to call free() whenever is a God-given, unalienable right.
RDilling@mattblaze Duh…. We all have the right to be stupid. Some just exercise that right more than others.
Bennet Yee@mattblaze just wait until there are recommendations wrt race conditions
Seth Hanford 🐡@mattblaze there will be no end of accusations from them of heap grooming.
Norman Wilson@mattblaze Do they consider Larry Flon prophet or apostate?
Colin Rosenthal ✡️🕎 ❤️🇮🇱❤️ 🕎✡️@mattblaze If GOTO was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.
@mattblaze and don't get them started on polymorphism.
Matt@colinrosenthal @mattblaze that object is just a struct and could never be anything else
@mattblaze - Overwriting to start, no doubt, with the Proud Boys Stack Formation on January 6th. To be erased from the history books.
spv@mattblaze USA USA USA
Julio J. 🀲@mattblaze since I'm not seeing it on your replies already, nobody can't take away your god-given right to segfault
Ted Mielczarek@mattblaze I guess this *would* be in the interest of their Russian backers.
mhoye@mattblaze Smashing The State For Fun And Profit
miketcope
Dan Cross@mattblaze C ... was here BEFORE the Rust compiler. So you can give your heart to Ritchie. But your code, belongs, to the borrow checker!
Dan Ports
Partially Stochastic@mattblaze And when they segfault, just say to pick yourself up by your BIOS boot-straps
Patrick Reynolds@mattblaze Smashing the stack for God and country
—Phrack 49:14
William@mattblaze exclusion of liability for compiler manufacturers in case of wrongful process overwrite or thread death
C.You don't tell *me* I can't follow a null pointer. I'll follow any damn pointer I want!
Hold m'beer.
Josiah Keller@mattblaze Footgun rights!
Ben Slusky@mattblaze If C was good enough for Jesus then it's good enough for me
AN/CRM-114@mattblaze reference counters and borrow checks are stealing jobs from real american garbage collectors
Bill Zaumen@mattblaze Curiously, in the 1980s, I wrote a simulator that would sometimes purposely overwrite the stack to provide multi-threading. This did not occur often enough for performance to be an issue, but it let me use the existing symbolic debuggers. That saved enough programmer time + debugging runs to pay for the inefficiency.
Needless to say, we don't have to resort to that today.
Steve Grunwell@mattblaze Additionally, all prototypes must be brought to production, even if the product is considered non-viable.
@stevegrunwell that was literally the PL/C model - the compiler never aborts, no matter how nonviable the code.
Neil Kandalgaonkar@mattblaze The 2nd amendment states clearly the people have the right to own and bear footguns
@mattblaze the right to bear footguns shall not be infringed!
TheZoq2
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@mattblaze Land of the free(), home of the brave?
I heard that your candidate's memory model is really weak.
Dave Neary@mattblaze "You can take my malloc from my cold dead hands."