ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 29 days agoPointers explained:lemmy.worldimagemessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up1583
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minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-228 days agoThey 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.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-227 days agoBut… per-process-isolation is a hardware feature, no?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-227 days agoSure, that may be (it’s definitely not in userspace). But don’t forget it works by crashing your program.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 days agoSo you really should implement it in your compiler so you don’t contravene it
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.
But… per-process-isolation is a hardware feature, no?
Sure, that may be (it’s definitely not in userspace). But don’t forget it works by crashing your program.
So you really should implement it in your compiler so you don’t contravene it