Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C

Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by icedchai on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:42AM (#17441517)

I've been programming C on and off for 30 years. Rust feels too complex to be a C replacement. C++, yes...

C's paradigm is really about working with memory. Anything that restricts memory access with bound or type checking is going to feel like "not C"...

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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by bitwize on Monday July 02, 2018 @12:22PM (#17442990)

C doesn't have anything to say about whether bounds are checked or not. That's why so many things, including pointers to arbitrary locations in memory, are undefined: the standard was built to accommodate both embedded system implementations where scribbling all over RAM is desirable, and implementations that do things like bound checking.

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