Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment
by tomnipotent on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:50AM
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That's a library feature (not intended for release builds), not a language feature.
Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment
by weebull on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:22AM
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It is intended for release builds. The ReleaseSafe target will keep the checks. ReleaseFast and ReleaseSmall will remove the checks, but those aren't the recommended release modes for general software. Only for when performance or size are critical.
Re:The end of the kernel Rust experiment
by tomnipotent on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @12:51PM
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DebugAllocator essentially becomes a no-op wrapper when you use those targets.
> ... has a debug allocator that maintains memory safety in the face of use-after-free and double-free
which is probably true (in that it's not possible to violate memory safety on the debug allocator, although it's still a strong claim). But beyond that there isn't really any current marketing for Zig claiming safety, beyond a heading in an overview of "Performance and Safety: Choose Two".