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		thrance 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (200... True of safe rust only. You can always fall back to unsafe rust, allocate a chunk of bytes and write/read to it as you wish.

stouset 6 months ago [–]

Even in unsafe Rust, this is undefined behavior.

LoganDark 6 months ago | [–]

You're allowed to trigger as much undefined behavior as you wish. It makes the program meaningless of course, but it's not like it stops you.

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