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An intentional exit by a runtime is a safe crash. A segfault is not, and is here a clear sign that memory safety has been violated.
by mirashii 1y ago
An intentional exit by a runtime is a safe crash. A segfault is not, and is here a clear sign that memory safety has been violated.
- Gibbon1 1y agoYeah it's not the segfault that's bad, it's when it's when the write to address 0x20001854 succeeds and now some hapless postal clerk is going to jail.
- adamwk 1y agoI guess I was thinking specifically of the swift case where values have exclusive access enforcement. Normally caught by a compiler, they will safely crash if the compiler didn’t catch it. I think the only way to segfault would be by using Unsafe*Pointer types, which are explicitly marked unsafe