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Jtsummers
1316 days ago
> So what does it mean for a program to be memory safe if it can still memory leak?
That it's not actually memory safe. Memory leaks are part of memory unsafety.
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Hemospectrum
1315 days ago
That’s not correct. Memory safety consists of properties necessary for type safety to be upheld. Leaks alone can crash a program but can’t defeat type safety.
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