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Re:Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” by pclmulqdq on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:17AM (#33507790)
There are an incredibly large number of analysis tools for C to check things like memory safety. It doesn't look like they are always used in important code, though.

A lot of memory safety CVEs come down to "we wrote a static analyzer and found a latent memory bug here."

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Re:Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” by timbit42 on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:22AM (#33507878)
Maybe a language with the checking by default in the compiler would be a good idea, like Ada or SPARK.
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