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Fil-C for programmers

Fil-C for programmers

Posted Oct 29, 2025 11:45 UTC (Wed) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375)
In reply to: Fil-C for programmers by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation

Adding a runtime to Debian, say like how kFreeBSD was added, would be an interesting avenue for running some things inside a memory-safe environment while finding and fixing memory-type UB for packages people want to run in Val-C.

K3n.

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Fil-C for programmers

Posted Oct 30, 2025 22:23 UTC (Thu) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]

Via the discussion of this lwn.net piece at lobste.rs [1], it turns out [2] that djb had already got in with this.

1: https://lobste.rs/s/mg0aur/fil_c_memory_safe_c_implementa...
2: https://cr.yp.to/2025/fil-c.html

K3n.


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