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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by milesrout on Sunday February 12, 2017 @01:58AM (#13627179)
You can very easily have all the sorts of memory unsafety you have in C, in Rust.
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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by pjmlp on Sunday February 12, 2017 @06:31AM (#13627893)
Only in sections marked as unsafe.

In C every single line of code that manipulates pointers, does string operations, uses arrays or unsigned arithmetic is a possible cause of memory corruption.

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