Messages in this thread | | | From | Miguel Ojeda <> | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:01:25 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 06/27] rust: add C helpers |
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 6:08 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > > Please, no UB. I will take a panic over UB any day. It'd be best to > handle things with some error path, but those are the rare exception. > > C is riddled with UB and it's just terrible. Let's make sure we don't > continue that mistake. :)
I definitely agree on avoiding UB :)
> The simple answer is that if an "impossible" situation can be recovered > from, it should error instead of panic. As long as that's the explicit > design goal, I think we're good. Yes there will be cases where it is > really and truly unrecoverable, but those will be rare and can be well > documented.
Yeah, that is the goal and we always take that into account, but there are always tricky cases which is best to consider case-by-case.
Cheers, Miguel
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