Re:Make CPython segfault in 5 lines of code
by Sean1708 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:04AM
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> I think it is fair to call C "unsafe" given the above definition of safe/unsafe.
I don't think anyone would disagree with this. What they're saying is that a segfault is safe and that's because a segfault is essentially your OS's version of an out-of-bounds error, one of the reasons that C is not safe is because an out-of-bounds access will not necessarily cause a segfault.
I don't think anyone would disagree with this. What they're saying is that a segfault is safe and that's because a segfault is essentially your OS's version of an out-of-bounds error, one of the reasons that C is not safe is because an out-of-bounds access will not necessarily cause a segfault.