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by Gibbon1 1006 days ago
gcc also has some builtins to check pointer sizes when the compiler is able to figure it out.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Object-Size-Che...

Which is why I harp on the idea that the real problem is the gold bricks on WG14 who are intentionally blocking improvements to make C safer.

Also point out that if you can implement C on 16bit 0x86's segmented architecture you can certainly implement C with phat pointers too.