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Building the kernel with clang

Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 20, 2017 7:18 UTC (Wed) by joib (subscriber, #8541)
In reply to: Building the kernel with clang by ncm
Parent article: Building the kernel with Clang

> Being over-tolerant of bad input ends up doing the world no favors.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wron... lays it out in more detail.

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Building the kernel with clang

Posted Sep 21, 2017 22:04 UTC (Thu) by jani (subscriber, #74547) [Link]

I like to call this the Crapustness Principle: The software design guideline based on the illusion of ability to happily process any crap that you're given as if it was actually meaningful. This is when GIGO and the robustness principle collide.


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