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> But not in the Linux kernel. Sure, it is still an experiment, but that's irrelevant: your theoretical "make C memory safe" tooling does not exist and does no
by steveklabnik 2y ago
> But not in the Linux kernel.
Sure, it is still an experiment, but that's irrelevant: your theoretical "make C memory safe" tooling does not exist and does not exist in the kernel.
> instead of writing a novel tool?
Do you have a proposed design for the novel tool? Many have tried, nobody has succeeded.
> Do you have any examples here?
From the article:
> Kroah-Hartman said that it could eliminate entire classes of bugs in the kernel.
He's said similar things elsewhere: https://social.kernel.org/notice/AlxbVeMxyJNsLoNa6q https://social.kernel.org/notice/AlxbVeMxyJNsLoNa6q