| ▲ | zozbot234 4 days ago | |
Rust has pointer provenance which implies very similar constraints to the "typed memory" wording of C/C++. | ||
| ▲ | AlotOfReading 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Does it? It's very unclear to me whether something like type punning is prohibited by provenance today. The docs don't provide much clarity, and the comments I can find by ralf suggest the details are undecided. I can't imagine it won't be eventually prohibited since we already have hardware designs prohibiting it and it's a terrible code pattern to begin with, but I don't know if the language currently does so. | ||
| ▲ | steveklabnik 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
This isn’t correct. Just because Rust has aliasing rules doesn’t mean they’re the same sorts of rules. C and C++ are also looking to adopt more formal provenance rules. | ||