safety model in D

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Nov 3 16:21:06 PST 2009


Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Sketch of the safe rules:
> 
> \begin{itemize*}
> \item No @cast@ from a pointer type to an integral type and vice versa

replace integral type with non-pointer type.

> \item No @cast@ between unrelated pointer types
> \item Bounds checks on all array accesses
> \item  No  unions  that  include  a reference  type  (array,  @class@,
>   pointer, or @struct@ including such a type)

pointers are not a reference type. Replace "reference type" with 
"pointers or reference types".

> \item No pointer arithmetic

> \item No escape of a pointer  or reference to a local variable outside
>   its scope

revise: cannot take the address of a local or a reference.

> \item Cross-module function calls must only go to other @safe@ modules
> \end{itemize*}

add:
. no inline assembler
. no casting away of const, immutable, or shared



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