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[-] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Instead of mass translating C code in some insane ready-to-ruin codebases project, why not just.. make a compiler that addresses the vulnerabilities?

[-] Speaker@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

They did, it's called rustc. A compliant C compiler cannot escape giving a programmer unfettered access to manipulate memory, so the problem is not in the compiler. There are safe subsets of C that don't exhibit these problems, but a compiler that only supports such a subset is no longer a C compiler.

[-] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks, guess that makes sense, kinda.

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