it's joever for Cniles (I am one of them 😔)

  • bumpusoot [any]
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    2 months 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 [e/em/eir]
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      2 months 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.