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by saagarjha 1632 days ago
> It also, by the looks of things, does not provide a way to say you want wrapping if that's what you did intend

This would be something for C/C++ to add, which they (for reasons unknown to me) failed to make progress on. I applaud Rust for having them; they're table stakes at this point.

> Since we're on the topic of sanitizers. These are great for AoC where I always run my real input under Debug anyway, but not much use in real systems where of course the edge case will inevitably happen in the uninstrumented production system and not in your unit tests...

Right, they are not perfect. They're a bandaid; a valiant effort but even then not a particularly great bandaid. As I've described elsewhere, I don't actually think this situation is going to get any better :(