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You don't even need to reverse it. It's in the public clang, and I'm working on helping my team adopt it in some test cases.

And it's not just the bounds-checking that's great -- it makes a bunch of C anti-patterns much harder, and it makes you think a lot harder about pointer ownership and usage. Really a great addition to the language, and it's source-compatible with empty macro-definitions (with two exceptions).



> It's in the public clang

I think you’re thinking of something else


It or something similar has apparently been upstreamed to clang as -fbounds-safety. I don't know if they're the same, but the RFC on -fbounds-safety does give some credit to the author of Fil-C, who also took credit for firebloom on this thread as well.


Not the same


Thanks for clarifying, I had found a past HN comment stating they are the same.


Interesting! How do you get started?





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