Nmap Development: Re: C++ Development

[Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>]

On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Jay Freeman (saurik) wrote:
> “Oh come on… why are we even discussing this?  Take nmap and move it to C++?
> Fyoder would be all over you in a minute.”
There are lots of great reasons NOT to put any c++ in nmap:
-Compiler availability
-No matter how clever you make the compilers
  there is always some overhead... admittedly negligible
  but in my opinion the compiler world has been in intel Stasis
  for the last 10 years. Mebbe all whis vliw stuff will shake that.
  So unless they've changed the optimizers tremendously,
  since I looked there is still always a small hit at a minimum.
-Heap overflows and other security sloppyness possible
...amongst others.

So there might be others who are vocal about staying at the lower
more predictable C level code for a network utility.   :-)
 
cheers,
--dr
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