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Re: Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust

From George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust
Date 2025-05-15 11:52 -0400
Organization Compilers Central
Message-ID <25-05-009@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References <25-05-004@comp.compilers> <25-05-005@comp.compilers> <25-05-006@comp.compilers>

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On Wed, 14 May 2025 08:21:51 +0000, arnold@freefriends.org wrote:

>In article <25-05-005@comp.compilers>,
>Derek  <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com> wrote:
>>I suspect that the same is happening with Rust. If so, how does using
>>Rust make the code safer than using C without any checking switched
>>on?
>
>Rust catches many problems at compile time.  I am not at all a Rust
>expert, or even a novice, but I don't think Rust does runtime
>bounds checking, since it relies on compiler analysis instead.

Debug builds in Rust may do considerable runtime checking depending on
what the code is trying to do.

There is a small amount of checking done even in release builds. There
are always some things that can't be checked at compile time.

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Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-05-09 12:27 -0400
  Re: Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust Derek <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com> - 2025-05-13 21:30 +0100
    Re: Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust arnold@freefriends.org - 2025-05-14 08:21 +0000
      Re: Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-05-14 20:01 +0000
        Re: Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at - 2025-05-15 07:48 +0000
      Re: Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2025-05-15 11:52 -0400
      Re: Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net - 2025-05-16 15:42 +0000
        Re: Paper: PR2: Peephole Raw Pointer Rewriting with LLMs for Translating C to Safer Rust Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-05-16 17:57 +0000

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