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Re:Implementing a NES Emulator in Rust by steveklabnik on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:26PM (#19433080)
What my sibling said, but also, that unsafe doesn’t mean you’re free from rules; where safe and unsafe interact, your unsafe code is expected to uphold the safety guarantees that the safe code expects.

This matters because of stuff like the article; if you see the other thread, I’m pretty sure (though haven’t verified yet) that this code has UB, even though they’re using unsafe.

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Re:Implementing a NES Emulator in Rust by bluejekyll on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:22PM (#19433862)
Right, which is why I phrased it as a “few restrictions”, I do understand the point you’re making.

I suppose the reason I consider it restrictions is due to things like “in safe code you can not work with raw pointers”. That seems like a restriction to me, but I can see why saying that way is less accurate.

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