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		kazinator on Feb 27, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The need for memory safety standards There's no such thing as hardware memory safety, with absolutely no change to the semantics of the machine as seen by the compiled C program. There are going to be false positives.

gw2 on Feb 27, 2025 [–]

> There are going to be false positives

Of course, but compare it with rewriting it to a completely different language.

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