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> Writing memory-safe C is clearly possible - many other enviroments are written in C

Show me one major piece of C software that does not have frequent memory-safety bugs and I might believe that.



djbdns/qmail might qualify here.


qmail had LP64 memory corruption bugs.


One ever right? I wouldn't count that as "frequent" - lots of programs in memory-safe languages have more/worse bugs than qmail.

Of course, the existence of one significant not-too-vulnerable C program doesn't really prove a lot either way...


I though Georgi Guninski found several.




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