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Re:Rust 1.17 by pjmlp on Friday April 28, 2017 @02:59AM (#14217404)
> Do think it's possible to write a C compiler that checks for use after free, double free, buffer overflows, index out-of-bound issues, etc.?

No, due to the way the language semantics works.

There are static analyzers that do something like that, MISRA-C, High Integrity C, Frama-C, but you are literally using C with Ada semantics at that point, thus it is almost like another language.

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