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pcwalton
1613 days ago
When I say that a language isn't meaningfully better than C in terms of memory safety, I mean C as programmed in 2022, which very much includes ASan.
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AndyKelley
1613 days ago
You are misinformed. ASAN is a debugging tool. It is not a mechanism to provide safety to C applications.
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dralley
1613 days ago
I think their reply is fair as a response to the capabilities of "zig test"
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pcwalton
1613 days ago
We're talking about tests here.
I work with ASan for a living. I know what it is, thank you :)
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