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Aurornistoday at 3:48 PM1 replyview on HN

That line confused me, too. What parts of their compiler require memory-unsafe operations to produce machine code?


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skybriantoday at 4:19 PM

They are saying that running the compiled code is memory-unsafe when there is a compiler bug, and that’s what developers do next. The memory corruption happens in a different process.

In this respect, effectively all the compiler should be treated sort of like an unsafe region because it requires extra care to avoid memory corruption bugs.

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