[OT] Stack safety in Rust

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/5/13 7:50 AM, qznc wrote:
> 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

Well now at least we'll get bearophile off of our backs touting 
segmented stacks, using Rust as the sole argument they're good :o).

Andrei