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		asattarmd on Dec 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? What year did reaction happen? I spent my entire life taking it for granted, not realizing that it indeed is a little interpreted language in print statements.

_ugfj on Dec 24, 2020 [–]

For many of us it was in 2015 when Control-Flow Bending: On the Effectiveness of Control-Flow Integrity was presented at USENIX proving printf is turing complete. https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...

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