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Aug 20, 2025, 12:12:31 PM (7 months ago)
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Michael Brooks <mlbrooks@…>
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  • doc/theses/mike_brooks_MMath/uw-ethesis-frontpgs.tex

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    132132Often array is part of the programming language, while linked-list is built from (recursive) pointer types, and string from a combination of array and linked-list.
    133133For all three types, languages and/or their libraries supply varying degrees of high-level mechanisms for manipulating these objects at the bulk and component level, such as copying, slicing, extracting, and iterating among elements.
    134 Unfortunately, these three aspects of C cause 60\%--70\% of the reported software vulnerabilities involved memory errors, and 70\%-80\% of hacker attack-vectors target these types.
     134Unfortunately, these three aspects of C cause 60\%--70\% of the reported software vulnerabilities involved memory errors, and 70\%--80\% of hacker attack-vectors target these types.
    135135Therefore, hardening these three C types goes a long way to make the majority of C programs safer.
    136136
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