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Re:Checked C by musicale on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:43AM (#34091178)
What about Fail-Safe C [1] and SoftBound [2]:

[1] https://staff.aist.go.jp/y.oiwa/FailSafeC/index-en.html

[2] https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~sn349/softbound/

The former apparently implements full ANSI C, and the latter apparently has a memory safety proof in Coq.

The group that did [1] also did an ANSI C to Java compiler.

It seems to me that we could really use a safe ABI (x86_64_safe, etc.) for C/C++, and that it should be supported by clang and gcc.

Maybe CHERI will catch on someday...

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