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Yes, indexing into arrays in C (well, really, de-referencing pointers) in ways that are out of bounds will in the best case result in a fault which results in a

by codys 5y ago

Yes, indexing into arrays in C (well, really, de-referencing pointers) in ways that are out of bounds will in the best case result in a fault which results in a BUG() invocation in Linux. Panicing on invalid slice indexing is a non-issue.

a1369209993 5y ago
> Panicing on invalid slice indexing is a non-issue. Well, it's less of a issue that what we already have. It would still be nice to be able to tell the compiler: "Issue a diagnostic for any [some qualifiers] panic that isn't optimized out by unreachable code analysis.".