I'm not too sure about the realloc example. The man page on my Mac says

That says to me its behaviour is already aligned with the new standard and I'm not sure if it ever wasn't.

Furthermore, I don't think I've ever seen C code that uses the behaviour described by the article. The example of grep doesn't use it, it only uses the "passing in a null pointer is the same as malloc" behaviour. Also, the example stack is a bit bogus. A real implementation would never bother to realloc with less memory because you're almost certainly going to need to grow the stack again at some future time.

That's just a subset of undefined behaviour and it limits what an implementation can do. For example, the designers of a C compiler for a segmented architecture may want to trap if you try to compare two pointers in different segments but give a sane answer if you compare two pointers in the same segment.

"Undefined behaviour" means "the implementor can do whatever is convenient" and for implementors targeting a flat address space, it's convenient to return a sane value no matter where the two pointers came from. It means, for example, they can implement memmove() without copying the source block into a temporary array (to avoid corruption id the source and destination overlap).

I've often wondered about that. Did he really make the words up or is it just that his texts are the earliest surviving texts with the words in them?

macOS is not curated and garden walled.

Oh, and if you really didn't care, you wouldn't have bothered with the original comment, never mind the response to people criticising your English skills.

You accidentally cut that short. You should have written "I don't care about my readers". Capitalisation and punctuation are there to help us read your sentences. It's not the writer or submitter of the article you are sending a big FU to, it's us.

Writing a big honking cheque is normal practice if you want to use somebody else's patented technology. It's quite a good way of making money off your patented technology if you don't want to manufacture it yourself.

I don't care how far it is to the next golf hole. I do, however, care about tide times, map directions, notifications from things other than text messages, alarm clocks, Sound Hour etc etc etc. The Apple Watch has significantly more flexibility and functionality than most other smart watches. You get what you pay for.

Yeah, the silly name is the elephant in the room.

Point 2 is obviously nonsense because computers aren't going to get slower.

Point 1 is less obviously nonsense, but is, anyway. The Tiobe index is calculated by counting search hits for each programming language on twenty five search engines. Python seems to be the language of choice for amateur programmers. I classify "amateurs" as hobbyists and people who need to do a bit of programming in a job that isn't programming. As an example, most of the people on Youtube with maths channels will use Python for their scripting needs.

The Tiobe index doesn't not distinguish between the hits generated by these people and by professional programmers.

One of those "rich bastards" was a teachers' pension fund in Canada.

I know you want the World to be simple, but it's not. These things are never black and white and it's never just the rich bastards that suffer in these kinds of fraud.

Probably a lot of ordinary people have lost their life savings in this, just for the crime of being a bit stupid. People will die because not having money can be a killer, especially in the USA. So I would say, five years would be a mockery. Elizabeth Holmes got eleven and her partner thirteen. That's the ball park Bankman Fried should be looking at.

The dollars were there once. The clients would have put the dollars in, it's just that the dollars have been taken away without anybody except the thief knowing about it.

Is that some sort of miniature fraud?

You can only hear one side of the conversation. For some reason, that seems to make it worse, at least for me.

Admittedly it is two years since I last flew on a plane, but I've never been on one in which the use of mobile phones not in flight mode was allowed. I have been on planes that had phones but the charges were so extortionate that nobody used them.

I have, on the other hand, been on trains where nearby passengers insisted on using their phones constantly and seen a couple of cases that almost came to violence. It would be worse on a plane because you are all that much closer together and the ambient noise is quite high so people will talk louder.

You think the people who are against 5G and vaccines are the same people who are in favour of Elon Musk torturing primates?

I really doubt if that's the case or even that the anti-5G/anti-vaxxers like the idea of a direct neural interface even if done properly.