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Whatever happens for the other UB remains bounded memory safely in Fil-C. (according to a definition of memory safety that excludes protection of subobject bounds, but Rust also redefines memory safety to what the Rust compiler can do, e.g. excludes memory leaks).


I'm not so sure you can make such a strong statement about what happens when UB is invoked. The presence of UB allows the compiler to make all kinds of weird assumptions, and it seems very unlikely that there exists no series of allowable transforms that results in a pointer capabilities check being elided or similar.


Presumably Martin intends the usual caveat that this is subject to bugs. So, "there might be a bug in the compiler" isn't interesting. There are bugs in LLVM, bugs in Rust's trait resolution, bugs in Javascript implementations, obviously code has bugs and that's generally not very interesting - we can fix bugs.

Are you claiming that there must be such transforms or only that it is likely that bugs exist which isn't interesting.




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