linux.conf.au, January 2003
      PRINCIPLES: Fundamental Constraints

Limited stack space (shared with interrupts on some archs)
char buffer[4096]; /* BOOM! */

Platform independence: 64-bit clean, endian-clean, char-signed clean
int foo = (int)&ptr; /* BOOM! */
char *primero_byte = (char *)&foo;  /* BOOM! */
if (*primero_byte < 0) /* BOOM! */