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		mstef on June 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Memory-safe, clean implementation of classic Posix... this must be parody. what exactly is the threatmodel where memory-safety matters for a calculator? did these devs miss the point of popping a calc.exe? surely no bc has ever been used for LPE or RCE.

jgarzik on June 8, 2024 [–]

The entire repo is written in Rust. bc is one of 145 utils specified by POSIX.

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