Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
Posted Feb 12, 2021 11:09 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo by NYKevin
Parent article: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo
> e.g. the runtime doesn't have to do array bounds checking or similar
But even your short list (with two elements) includes two things which are hard to implement on some platforms. Accessing NULL wouldn't be caught on MS-DOS or many other “small” CPUs (and real mode is not dead if we would consider platforms which we are discussing in the article live… heck, in a world where Windows 3.0 support is added to compilers in year 2020 it can be considered more alive than other architectures discussed here). Catching “divide by zero” is not trivial, e.g., on AArch64 (fp exceptions are optional there are you need to periodically check if they happened — looks more-or-less array bounds checking or similar to me).
> Alternatively, you can insert bounds checks everywhere, and go down the Java road instead, but then you're not really a "low-level language" anymore.
But you have just said that you should crash instead! Make up your mind, please!