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Re:-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C by vlovich123 on Thursday February 19, 2026 @01:28PM (#47077196)
Because it can only catch a subset of issues, it’s not guaranteed to catch issues (probabilistic), even issues it “could” catch may not be caught due to temporal distance of the free and a subsequent use, and requires the use of a different allocator that supports it. It’s also unclear to me how it know whether a given free is for a sampled or unsampled region - I suspect it must capture all free/realloc to accomplish that but it does imply all of these are sampled.

It’s nowhere near the same as robust bounds checking.

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