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0 pointsAaronFriel3y ago0 comments

Alas, I don't work in offensive security but it's been a hobby of mine as an engineer to keep up to date. Some day, perhaps.

To be precise, I don't think the mitigations Zig has, which the author labels as "spatial safety", are entirely without value. Optionals & sum types, range checks are helpful.

Buffer underflows as in writing to negative indices? I wish I could go in a time machine and default early languages to saturating arithmetic instead of wrapping. Even Rust does wrapping arithmetic in release mode, in debug mode overflows will panic.

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_vvhw3y ago

Yes, agreed with you as to buffer underflows. Here, I really like that Zig has checked arithmetic enabled by default in safe builds. It's a small decision (to many) but so important. It surprises me that Rust does not do this for safe builds. A panic is stronger (and safer) than only wrapping or (implicit) saturating arithmetic.

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0 pointsAaronFriel3y ago0 comments

Alas, I don't work in offensive security but it's been a hobby of mine as an engineer to keep up to date. Some day, perhaps.

To be precise, I don't think the mitigations Zig has, which the author labels as "spatial safety", are entirely without value. Optionals & sum types, range checks are helpful.

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_vvhw3y ago

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