From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/2569 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: NULL Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:17:53 +0100 Message-ID: <50F2EC41.1080702@gentoo.org> References: <20130112133114.GH20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <1358087360.32505.12@driftwood> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358097485 31610 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2013 17:18:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:18:05 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-2570-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Jan 13 18:18:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TuRCQ-0006p4-28 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:18:22 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 15903 invoked by uid 550); 13 Jan 2013 17:18:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 15895 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2013 17:18:05 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:2569 Archived-At: On 13/01/13 16:23, Strake wrote: > On 13/01/2013, Rob Landley wrote: >> I read "incorrect programs" and "c++ programs" as synonymous, but I'm >> biased. > > A strong bias indeed, to assume that anything written in another > language is fault-free. > Given a bit of preprocessed C++ code you can't tell if it is right or wrong syntactically w/out having additional knowledge. That is one of the funny gripes from the people trying to implement a C++ compiler. So in a way it is always incorrect. lu