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Having worked at Microsoft where SAL is used extensively, I can tell you it's entirely inadequate for actually preventing memory safety issues. At best it can g
by asveikau 4y ago
Having worked at Microsoft where SAL is used extensively, I can tell you it's entirely inadequate for actually preventing memory safety issues. At best it can give you things in the category of better warnings. At worst, you can annotate incorrectly or not at all, so it doesn't even work with correct info.
- pjmlp 4y agoWhich kind of proves the point of all these approaches not being able to be nothing more than bandaids.
- asveikau 4y agoI'm not sure it does prove it. It could just be a story of poor execution.
- 29athrowaway 4y agoBut that was not the way it was sold to developers and stakeholders.