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Re: How much do we care about undefined behavior triggered by invalid by


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: How much do we care about undefined behavior triggered by invalid bytecode?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 23:28:06 -0400

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  > Nevertheless, IMHO the bytecode interpreter should be made robust where
  > possible.

I think it would be an improvement to do check for nonsensical
bytecode when creating a bytecode object.  As long as it doesn't make
reading a compiled file much slower.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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