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Pointers explained: (europe.pub)

submitted 4 months ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

They all have footguns that cause different crashes.

If you want to do explicit memory access without inevitable safety problems, you need Rust. That's the whole hype with Rust.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

But... per-process-isolation is a hardware feature, no?

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

So you really should implement it in your compiler so you don't contravene it

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago*

Sure, that may be (it's definitely not in userspace). But don't forget it works by crashing your program.

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