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On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 11:10:06 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Le 21/07/2024 à 10:00, Niklas Holsti a écrit :
>
>> But certainly, most attacks on SW have used functional bugs such as
>> buffer overflows.
> 
> A problem that has been solved since 1983, and even before (Pascal had
> bounds checking). Sigh...

Pascal had no checking for memory leaks or double-frees.

Rust certainly seems to be a next-generation solution to these sorts of 
memory problems.