If you want those things, you don't want C. Pick a reasonable higher level language you like that makes those decisions for you. My comment was not to imply th

If you want those things, you don't want C. Pick a reasonable higher level language you like that makes those decisions for you. My comment was not to imply that somehow C is superior to X, Y, or Z, but rather to point out that the safety problem with C does have a practical solution.