[OT] Stack safety in Rust

[qznc]

On Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 15:25:21 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> David Nadlinger:
>
>> http://cmr.github.io/blog/2013/10/21/on-stack-safety/
>>
>> It's a new blog post by Corey Richardson, discussing how to 
>> mitigate memory corruption due to stack overflows.
>
> Very nice article, it presents a interesting hybrid strategy. 
> It seems Rust designers have understood some of the 
> disadvantages of the segmented stacks Walter wrote about.


They removed segmented stacks completely now.

"The new runtime does not implement segmented stacks and it never 
will."

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/006314.html