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> you just emit your checking code yourself...

Which C programmers keep failing to do, regularly, according to the CVE database.

> Also the C++ standard is 1500 pages long. I prefer to avoid knowing that as a backend language when I can...

Which includes the libraries that C lacks.

ANSI C + POSIX isn't much shorter than that.

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> Which C programmers keep failing to do, regularly, according to the CVE database.

Again, we were talking in the context of the language used as a backend, output by a compiler using an other higher level language as the source.

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