Good read, even if you, like me, don't care too much about the low-level stuff.. A few takeaways: - Embedded 32bit is everywhere. Sure they'll fix the obvious ones, but I'm sure some things will be forgotten about. This problem might not be taken seriously after the Y2K debacle. - The OpenBSD guys & gals like to do implement new designs and ideas. Sometimes radical. (but I already knew that) - A transitional solution…
> This problem might not be taken seriously after the Y2K debacle. I wish people would stop saying things like that. I was one of many programmers who spent some overtime over the course of about a year on fixing code in 1998-9. I was just the junior programmer at the time; the head guy in the department had some nearly sleepless nights around then. I can promise you that in one East Bay school district, nobody would…
I remember a lot of hype and no actual problems. I suspect others do as well, and this could lead to people thinking about the whole problem as over-hyped and a non-issue.
Not saying that it's correct, but that's the catch-22 of preventing problems: If you do a too good job, nobody will notice =/