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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by pron on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:52AM (#24617246)
You are correct, that's still a WIP, but the goal is to have "safe Zig" (i.e. Zig with safety checks on) catch all undefined behaviour modulo explicitly marked unsafe casts (which correspond to unsafe Rust code).
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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by IshKebab on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:46PM (#24618586)
That sounds great as long as the performance cost is not too high.
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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by atombender on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:15AM (#24628077)
By "catch", do you mean at compile time?
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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by pron on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:03PM (#24632945)
Some at compile-time, and some at runtime.
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