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Re:Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture by wglb on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:03PM (#16260204)
compiling it with something that makes it memory-safe

Isn't it true that there is a bit more work to do to a program to make it memory safe than just recompiling?

Like if the original is in C, recompiling it in C++ won't whisk away unsafe memory access without significant architectural rework, no?

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Re:Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture by pcwalton on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:39PM (#16260448)
It's nonsense. If it were possible to make C++ memory-safe with a special compiler, it would have been done long ago.
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