[akoboldfrying]

>Turbo C did that 30 years ago.

I used Turbo C++ (not C) back in the day, and recall near pointers, far pointers, based pointers, but I don't recall bounds-checked pointers. Do you remember any details?

>However, why bother trying

Because it would immediately make the large amounts of C code still in the wild safer for the users, who do care?

[rini17]

I remember it as an compiler otion.