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by tines 33 days ago
Pretty interesting, but what’s the reason of being for Fil-C?
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Can't speak to how everyone else is using it but at my job we run all of our unit tests under Fil-C as part of CI, in addition to the UBASAN, TSAN, and Valgrind pipelines we already had for them.
There's a whole lot of C and C++ software out there, and Fil-C makes it memory safe, frequently with minimal work.
Memory safety for existing C and C++ codebase.
Especially in systems where CHERI, MTE, ADI and similar harware isn't available.