Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale (micahlerner.com) 25 points by greghn 4y ago ↗ HN
[–] katkatkatkatket 4y ago ↗ If something like this existed for C, then we wouldn't need to learn a new language! [–] pjmlp 4y ago ↗ Plenty of stuff exists, the first one being lint, introduced in 1979.The problem with C isn't lack of tooling trying to fix it. [–] fulafel 4y ago ↗ Here's one C/C++ targeting tool they cite that is kind of similar: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dstefan/pubs/brown:2020:sys.pdfBut both tools only catch a subset of stuff, so they're not final cures for safety bugs.
[–] pjmlp 4y ago ↗ Plenty of stuff exists, the first one being lint, introduced in 1979.The problem with C isn't lack of tooling trying to fix it.
[–] fulafel 4y ago ↗ Here's one C/C++ targeting tool they cite that is kind of similar: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dstefan/pubs/brown:2020:sys.pdfBut both tools only catch a subset of stuff, so they're not final cures for safety bugs.
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[ 0.17 ms ] story [ 38.0 ms ] threadThe problem with C isn't lack of tooling trying to fix it.
But both tools only catch a subset of stuff, so they're not final cures for safety bugs.