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by aij 3387 days ago
> C/C++ is memory safe if you turn on dynamic checking.

What's the option to turn that on? Which compilers is it in?

I know there were several fat-pointer patches to GCC back in the day, but I didn't think anything remotely similar had ever gone mainstream. There's just too much existing code that relies on undefined behavior last I checked.