Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st...
by MaxBarraclough on Saturday March 19, 2022 @06:32AM
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> Wuffs the Library is available as transpiled C code
> However, unlike hand-written C, Wuffs the Language is safe with respect to buffer overflows, integer arithmetic overflows and null pointer dereferences. A key difference between Wuffs and other memory-safe languages is that all such checks are done at compile time, not at run time. If it compiles, it is safe, with respect to those three bug classes.
Sounds a lot like ZZ. [0] It also sounds much like SPARK Ada, except for transpiling to C.
> However, unlike hand-written C, Wuffs the Language is safe with respect to buffer overflows, integer arithmetic overflows and null pointer dereferences. A key difference between Wuffs and other memory-safe languages is that all such checks are done at compile time, not at run time. If it compiles, it is safe, with respect to those three bug classes.
Sounds a lot like ZZ. [0] It also sounds much like SPARK Ada, except for transpiling to C.
[0] https://github.com/zetzit/zz