• [$] Progress on defeating lifetime-end pointer zapping

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Wed Oct 8 06:40:08 2025
    Paul McKenney gave a remote presentation at

    Kangrejos˙2025 following up on the
    talk he gave last year about the
    lifetime-end-pointer-zapping problem: certain common patterns for multithreaded code are
    technically undefined behavior, and changes to the C and C++ specifications will be needed to correct that. Those changes could also impact code that uses unsafe Rust, such as the kernel's Rust bindings. Progress on the problem has been slow,
    but McKenney believes that a solution is near at hand.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1038757/
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