Supporting Rust is inevitable for platforms that want to remain viable for modern software releases

Posted Nov 26, 2024 16:02 UTC (Tue) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648)
In reply to: Supporting Rust is inevitable for platforms that want to remain viable for modern software releases by jwakely
Parent article: NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git

If someone is casting a pointer to int and back and then dereferencing, that someone is doing something very bad and deserves to crash. You at least need to use size_t to make that sane.

It may be necessary to modify clang not to autodecay the typedefs, don't know about that, but he's definitely already modifying clang.