[libre-riscv-dev] offtopic: memory safety

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 12:38 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 04:01 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
> wrote:

> From what I understand, when gcc added c++ support, it was a native c++
> compiler (not a c++ -> c compiler). maybe you were thinking of cfront --
> one of the original c++ compilers (not g++) which did translate C++ -> C.

 it was a long time ago - very early.  my memory's gone fuzzy...

> >  yehhh if there's no hardware _left_ to run the legacy software, you
> > can be preeetty sure that anyone on that combination is never, ever
> > going to upgrade :)
> >
> just hope it's not connected to the internet.

 :)