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thing about this Raymond Chen article

2022-12-28 17:05:03.357119+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The thing about this Raymond Chen article about a major anti-virus vendor doing code like "memcpy(allocedMemory, function1, (char *)function2-(char *)function1); (((void)()*)allocedMemory)();" is that it's been years since any coding I've done has had to know all of the reasons why that's a really bad idea, but as I fumble through abstractions of Promises and whatnot those neurons miss their exercise...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211229-00/?p=106061

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