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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by adrianN on Saturday February 11, 2017 @01:34AM (#13621406)
Maybe read up on Rust. Its type system prevents memory errors. To use after free, no use of invalid iterators, no buffer overflows. No data races in multithreaded code. It's pretty cool.
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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by milesrout on Saturday February 11, 2017 @03:51AM (#13621793)
Its type system certainly does not prevent memory errors.
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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by pcwalton on Saturday February 11, 2017 @04:00AM (#13621820)
It prevents certain classes of memory errors.
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