__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Saturday 28 April 2007 15:30 \__
> on 28/04/07 08:45 Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
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>> your title says that Microsoft is issuing some hack patch to fix windows.
>
> 'planned changes to fix some warts in the SDL (Security Development
> Lifecycle)'
>
> 'changing the compiler is a long-term task. In the short-term, we have a
> new compiler pragma that forces the compiler to be much more aggressive,
> and we will start using this pragma on new code'
>
> Sounds like a hack to be ..
Thank you. Exactly the sorts of phrases that caught my eye. In that other
article, clear criticism was appended (not just in the many comments). To
repeat Ron House's nice analogy, it's like detecting metal using a metal
detector that identified objects with "metal" printed on them. It puts a
spin (or reality) on Microsoft's flawed ideas and analogy. They just can't
bear the thought rewriting their O/S from scratch. Doing this will moreover
be admission of failure.
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