Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
by zerpelin68 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:02PM
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Agreed there is not much you can do about a programmer using memory in an unsafe way...so what is the point?
Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
by steveklabnik on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:29PM
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You can, in general. Just not for memory leaks.
The point is defense in depth.
It is also very difficult to come up with a definition of "memory leak" that doesn't include programmer intention, and so it's not clear that you can come up with static analysis to preclude it.