alt Hacker NewsThe DebugAllocator catches use-after-free (at least on page-level), but at the cost of never recycling memory addresses (e.g. it eats through the virtual address space).
https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#src/std/heap/d...
For higher level code, "generation-counted index handles" might be the better solution to provide temporal runtime memory safety, not part of Zig the stdlib though.
Or even better: never use dynamic memory allocation and make all lifetimes 'static' :)
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as a reminder its a construct in the zig stdlib to take an arbitrary chunk of memory (could be stack, could be in the programs static space) and wrap it in an allocator interface and give that to any data structure that needs an allocator and use it as if it were just malloc/free, with a fixed memory limit and the correct memory errors.
>The DebugAllocator catches use-after-free (at least on page-level)
To clarify, is that to say that you have to use the `std.heap.page_allocator` as its backing allocator?