lysdexic@programming.dev to C Programming Language@programming.devEnglish · 3 months agoC can be memory-safe (2023)blog.erratasec.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down111
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minus-squaretatterdemalion@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·3 months agoC compilers can’t tell you if your code has data races. That is one of the major selling points of Rust. How can the author claim that these features already exist in C compilers when they simply don’t?
C compilers can’t tell you if your code has data races. That is one of the major selling points of Rust. How can the author claim that these features already exist in C compilers when they simply don’t?