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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by Thrillington on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:36AM (#13626954)
An 8-bit AVR executes instructions from on board flash memory that requires twiddling hardware lines to erase and rewrite.

Remote code execution isn't a concern.

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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by boznz on Monday February 13, 2017 @06:53PM (#13640016)
AVR ATMega is self programmable ie a bootloader can re-flash it if its configured to allow but you would need some code already resident on the flash to allow, it couldnt be done without this code.
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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by pjmlp on Sunday February 12, 2017 @06:33AM (#13627897)
No, but memory corruption related to pointers misuse or unsigned arithmetic is.
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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by dbaupp on Sunday February 12, 2017 @10:38PM (#13632960)
(I think you mean signed arithmetic here and in your almost-sibling comment.)
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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by pjmlp on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:45AM (#13633552)
Probably, I always mix them up.
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