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CJefferson on March 8, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Relibc: C Library in Rust for Redox and Linux

A friend of mine found a bug in memmove over Christmas. Rust would have caught it (signed/unsigned issue), but the bug was in sse2 assembler so would still exist if they allowed optimised ask in the rust version.

anp on March 9, 2018 [–]

The path to stabilizing explicit simd intrinsics for rust should make many of those kinds of errors easier to catch with rusts casting requirements.

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